May 25, 1927: Henry Ford Announces Production Of The Model T Would End The Following Day

Visual Day In History
Written By Edward Moran

Between 1908 and 1927, some 15 million Model T’s rolled off the assembly line, bringing affordable four-wheeled horsepower to the masses. The popular cars continued to be workhorses in Depression-era America. In 1936, the Vernon Evans family of South Dakota used it to migrate across the northern Rockies in time for hop-picking season in Yakima. There are many links to interesting videos of the Model T on YouTube. You could search forever. Below are some interesting selections we found.

(Library of Congress)

(Library of Congress)

Model T Ford, Cook, Minnesota 1937

Model T Ford, Cook, Minnesota 1937

Photoprint from Ford News Bureau. Ford Model T 1915

Photoprint from Ford News Bureau. Ford Model T 1915

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Ford Model T, 800 Wharf Street, Richmond, 2005

Ford Model T, 800 Wharf Street, Richmond, 2005

Model T Ford at the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, 2017

Model T Ford at the Swan House, a historic house museum in Atlanta, 2017

Edward Moran

Edward is a literary historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history. He was associate editor of the World Authors reference series published by H. W. Wilson. He was also associate editor of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, the English language editor for the Japanese American News Corporation, chief editor of Global Rhythm magazine, and a contributing writer to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.

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