Model T Ford

• In 1911-12 and 1917-18 Ford in the USA and Great Britain produced 8,604 model T delivery vehicles.
  
  
• In July 1917 the company produced a one-ton Model T truck chassis, its first chassis designed for trucks.
  
  
• Previously trucks had been produced using the same chassis as the Model T car.
  
  
• The basic Model T chassis was extended by two foot and a new and stronger frame fitted.
  
  
• The rear suspension was stiffened and artillery-type rear wheels with solid rubber tires fitted.
  
  
• Production of complete Model T trucks started in 1918, with 3 produced that year.
  
  
• Note: The first Ford truck (the third vehicle to be built by Henry Ford) was produced in 1900.
  
  
• It wasn’t until January 1924 that the company started to produce bodies for their trucks.
  
  
• Up to then Ford used independent body suppliers.
  
  
• In 1925 the first truck with a fully closed body was produced. 
  
  
• Also in 1925 Ford produced their first factory-assembled pickup; billed as the "Ford Model T Runabout with Pickup Body."
  
  
• 34,000 were built in the first 12 months.
  
  
• Between 1918 and 1927 over 1.6 million Model T trucks were produced by Ford in the USA.
  
  
• Trucks represented about 11% of all Model T vehicles produced by Ford in the USA and an even greater percentage in Great Britain. British & Canadian % required.
  
  
• In addition Ford sold Model T truck chassis; chassis’ which were later converted into trucks of various types.
  
  
• Over the years Model T chassis’ were used to produce Fire Tenders, School Buses, Buses, Milk Wagons, Grocery Trucks, Delivery Trucks, Petrol Bowsers and others.  What else?
  
  
• Other applications included a Model T that was fitted with flange wheels to run on railway tracks, a model fitted with handsaws for use by timber-jacks and one adapted to provide power for milking machines.
  
  
• During WW 1 (1914-18) the company produced chassis’ for scout cars, machine gun carriers and ambulances.
  
                   
  
  
• Between 1916 and 1919 26,515 Model T ambulances were produced by Ford in the USA and Great Britain; 20,700 in 1916.  
  
  
• Walt Disney and the writer Ernest Hemingway were Model T ambulance drivers.
  
  
• What other Model T vehicles were produced in Canada? Ambulances?