Happy 100th, Lizzie!
"The car that put the world on wheels" entered production a century ago today at Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit. Tough, dependable, versatile, and easy to maintain, it was an amazing engineering achievement for it's day, or any day.
So successful was this car that by 1921 the "Tin Lizzie" accounted for almost 60% of world automobile production. At peak output a new "T" rolled off the line every ten seconds. Some 15 million of them were manufactured by the time production ended in 1927 to make way for the Model A.
This car brought practical transportation to a great many people who lived isolated on farms and in remote rural areas. Thousands saw big cities and other far away destinations for the first time in their lives because of the Model T.
Among all of Lizzie's great gifts, perhaps her greatest was the gift of freedom.
One hundred years ago today, the world got a lot smaller.
1 comment:
I cannot, for anything, imagine life without cars. I'd be completely and totally lost, and more than a little miserable.
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