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| Manufacturer | Ford Motor Company | | Production | 1908 � 1927 | | Assembly | Detroit, Michigan
Highland Park, Michigan
Cork, Ireland,
Manchester, England,
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Geelong, Australia
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Toronto, Ontario,
Walkerville, Ontario (now part of Windsor, Ontario) | | Predecessor | Ford Model S | | Successor | Ford Model A | | Class | Full-size Ford, economy car | | Body style | 2-door touring (1909 � 11)
3-door touring (1912 � 1925)
4-door touring (1926 � 1927)
no door roadster (1909 � 11)
1-door roadster(1912 � 1925)
2-door roadster (1926 � 1927)
roadster pickup (1925 � 1927)
2-door coupé (1909 � 1912, 1917 � 1927)
2-door Coupelet (1915 � 17)
Town car (1909 � 1918)
C-cab wagon (1912)
2-(Center)door sedan (1915 � 1923)
2-door sedan (1924 � 1927)
4-door sedan (1923 � 1927)
Separate chassis were available all years for independent coachbuilders | | Layout | FR layout | | Engine | 177 C.I.D. (2.9 L) 20 hp I4 | | Transmission | 2-speed planetary gear | | Wheelbase | 99.0 in (2515 mm) | | Length | 134 in (3404 mm) | | Weight | 1200 lb (544.3 kg) | | Fuel capacity | 10 US gallons (38 L) | | Designer | Henry Ford, Childe Harold Wills, Joseph A. Galamb and Eugene Farkas |
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The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Flivver, T‑Model Ford, or T) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. The Model T was the first automobile mass produced on assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts, marketed to the middle class.
There were several cars produced or prototyped by Henry Ford from the founding of the company in 1903 until the Model T came along. Although he started with the Model A, there were not 19 production models (A through T); some were only prototypes. The production model immediately before the Model T was the Model S, an upgraded version of the company's largest success to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A and not the Model U. Company publicity said this was because the new car was such a departure from the old that Henry wanted to start all over again with the letter A. As it happens, the first Plymouth car (1928), built by competitor Chrysler Corporation, was named Model U.
The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the 20th century in an international poll. Henry Ford said of the vehicle:
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one � and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."
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