Model T
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From: Fresno California
DZ, If you're ever in my neck of the woods, you're welcome. I'll teach you if you don't know how to drive an original T.....it has 3 pedals, low gear, brake, and reverse. The throttle is on the steering hub. Crank start only (electric wasn't until 1919 on T's) and Kerosene cowl and tail lamps. Cop pulled up next to me and said my brake light was out....I told him I didn't have one, just a tail lamp, and it wasn't lit because it was daytime. 20HP and 45 mph max speed, but at 45 it feels like you're doing about 100....(4:1 steering ratio!) Your T looks to be a might more muscular!
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Joined: Mar 2003
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From: Greenville, Indiana
That gave you 4 minutes/hour to drink your coffee or eat a sandwich in place on the line. That is unless they came to you with more elements of work. This was in the '60's/'70's.
When I retired, the line ran 90 jobs per hour which means it moved 1800 ft/hour or 18,000 ft/shift which would mean a line worker would walk roughly that far in each shift while performing his work duties.
Try it sometime!
I would agree, the guys at the Corvette plant don't seem to have much to do compared to what I was used to seeing in the Ford plants.
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Army
DZ, If you're ever in my neck of the woods, you're welcome. I'll teach you if you don't know how to drive an original T.....it has 3 pedals, low gear, brake, and reverse. The throttle is on the steering hub. Crank start only (electric wasn't until 1919 on T's) and Kerosene cowl and tail lamps. Cop pulled up next to me and said my brake light was out....I told him I didn't have one, just a tail lamp, and it wasn't lit because it was daytime. 20HP and 45 mph max speed, but at 45 it feels like you're doing about 100....(4:1 steering ratio!) Your T looks to be a might more muscular!
I drove a Dodge once from that era and that was the case with that car.....you REALLY had to know what you were doing so you didn't knock a hole in a piston....
