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Model T

American  

noun

  1. an automobile with a 2.9-liter, 4-cylinder engine, produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1909 through 1927, considered to be the first motor vehicle successfully mass-produced on an assembly line.


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Born in 1917, he spent his toddler years in Portland, Ore., until ice storms inspired his father to pile the family into a Model T and drive south.

From Los Angeles Times

The 20th century became the age of the consumer, thanks in large part to Henry Ford, who needed someone to buy all of the Model T’s he was producing.

From Barron's

The 20th century became the age of the consumer, thanks in large part to Henry Ford, who needed someone to buy all of the Model T’s he was producing.

From Barron's

The hike includes an area where natural “white oil” bubbles up from the earth, which locals reportedly used to collect to fill their Ford Model T fuel tanks.

From Los Angeles Times

Henry Ford had yet to introduce the Model T. Most promising companies from that era no longer exist.

From MarketWatch