July 23, 1903-The Original Model A Introduced.

[roccaas]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/living/gallery/tbt-ford-motor-company/index.html

 

[jthomas6]

That's some serious WhiteWalls on that 1903 version Model A.

 

[Patrick L.]

We had #3 for quite some time.

 

[Synchro909]

That's some serious WhiteWalls on that 1903 version Model A.

I noticed that all of the earlier cars are RHD.
Up till the Model T, all American cars were RHD but they still drove on the RHS of the road. Weird!

 

[Patrick L.]

I noticed that all of the earlier cars are RHD.
Up till the Model T, all American cars were RHD but they still drove on the RHS of the road. Weird!

That made it a lot easier for the mail carriers !

 

[SeaSlugs]

well the internal combustion engine and attempted cars before model T were mostly in europe, it also dates back to roman empire and more evidence during horseback days and right handed people being the influence. Henry Ford being a farm boy probably rode/drove horses ALOT and decided to keep driving the same as driving a team of horses.

Interesting little article:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...e-right-and-some-countries-drive-on-the-left/

 

[mshmodela]

That's some serious WhiteWalls on that 1903 version Model A.

Back then most tires were white --natural rubber.

 

[updraught]

well the internal combustion engine and attempted cars before model T were mostly in europe, it also dates back to roman empire and more evidence during horseback days and right handed people being the influence. Henry Ford being a farm boy probably rode/drove horses ALOT and decided to keep driving the same as driving a team of horses.

Interesting little article:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index...e-right-and-some-countries-drive-on-the-left/

"According to research done in 1969 by J.J. Leeming, keep-left countries have a much lower collision rate than keep-right countries. It is thought the reason behind this is that most people’s right eye is their dominant eye. Thus, the right eye in keep-left traffic is the one closest to oncoming traffic and so should reduce collisions. Another theory as to why this might be is that most people are right handed, so when driving a manual transmission car in a keep-left country, most people’s dominant hand is on the steering wheel; this could help in a person’s ability to maneuver accurately."

Yep !!!

 

[dan]

Back then most tires were white --natural rubber.

Yeah, I think carbon black was first added to rubber tires in 1912 or thereabouts. There's a 1908 Holsman at McPherson college that has black tires and we've been giving the faculty a hard time about it, since they're not period correct.

 

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Wonder how "they" cleaned the all WHITE tires??
Bill W.

 

[Patrick L.]

Wonder how "they" cleaned the all WHITE tires??
Bill W.

And here I thought they just let them turn black all by themselves.