Asking $11,900.00
ord was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably the Dodge brothers who would later found their own Motor company. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression. The largest family-controlled company in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
During its early years, the company produced a range of vehicles designated, chronologically, from the Model A in 1903 to the Model S in 1908. That year, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. In its first full year of production, 1909, about 18,000 Model Ts were built. As demand for the car grew, the company moved production to the much larger Highland Park Plant, and in 1911, the first year of operation there, about 70,000 Model Ts were produced. By 1913, the company had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly lineand mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes, and boosted annual output to 250,000 units (by 1920, this figure would exceed one million!). However, these innovations were hard on employees, and turnover of workers was very high. Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover problem by doubling pay to $5 a day ($103 per day in 2006 dollars), cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day for a 5 day work week, and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers. Thus, it pioneered the minimum wage and the 40 hour work week in the United States, before the government enacted it. Productivity soared and employee turnover plunged, and the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had disagreed with Ford's generous labor practices when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made.
The Ford Model T is probably the most important car ever made. It put America, and the world for that matter, on the road and changed the world forever. It held the production record for many decades, and while millions and millions were sold, there are some rare T's out there.
This very nice tudor sedan is an oldser restoration that runs and drives very well. the car has just the right amount of patina that one likes to see in old cars while still being very presentable. If you have been looking for a late model T Tudor, this car should fit the bill nicely.
