Film Footage Of 1904 London Street Traffic

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57. Other car companies were in production before Henry Ford got into the act

Ford just figured out how to make them less elaborate and easier to repair and thus cheap enough for the middle class to buy. My dad said his first car was a Model T in the early 30s, out of production by then but being recycled among teenagers until WWII came along and in use by rural folks for longer than that.

My grandmother had a Model A, bought new probably a hundred years ago and chauffeur driven until she kicked my grandfather out and learned to drive it herself. I rode in it as a little kid and thought it was neat. My mother thought it was a thrill a second because my grandmother never learned how to drive all that well. That was in the early 50s.