Model T motor carIn 1927, the last Ford Model T motor car ceremoniously rolled off the assembly line, watched by its inventor, Henry Ford at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan. Thus ended production of the Model T, after 19 years during which some 15 million vehicles had been built. Henry Ford, with his son, Edsel, then president of the Ford Motor Company drove the final iconic black coupe fourteen miles to the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory. There, it was parked beside two other historic Ford vehicles—the very first automobile built by Henry Ford (road tested on 4 Jun 1896), and the prototype for the Model T car (introduced 1 Oct 1908). Henry Ford celebrated by briefly driving each in turn.« |
