$15.00/Part Release...NOT GOOD!

Steve Plucker

Steve Plucker

BANNED
Got this email from the Ford Archives today.

NOT GOOD...

Hi Steve,

We received your request for Parts Drawing releases today and we’d like to thank you for your continued interest in the collections of The Henry Ford.

There has been some changes to our part drawing collection as well as a new agreement with Ford Motor Company which is spelt out on page 3 of the form, http://www.thehenryford.org/pdf/parts_form.pdf and notes the biggest change being that releases are now $15 per release #.

You have requested 21 releases @ $15 would be $315. If you would like to move forward with all 21 we will need you to submit the difference of payment of $210 for us to move forward.

If you would like us to move forward with your request in a different way please let me know.

Thank you again and I look forward to hearing from you.

Stephanie

Stephanie Lucas
Research Specialist
The Henry Ford

It has been fun but my pockets are not deep enough for this anymore...I have asked for a refund...

Pluck
 
I thought the per sheet price was 20 or 30 $, at least that's what I have heard for the Model T sheets.
 
and to think of all the publicity and good will the
international Ford day does for them
thousands of ford owners showing Ford products all over the world
they must be laughing their heads off at us
 
mot said:
and to think of all the publicity and good will the
international Ford day does for them
thousands of ford owners showing Ford products all over the world
they must be laughing their heads off at us
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Well...Maybe that is "Ford's Way" of doing things!:mad:
 
More of the "new Ford" it would appear, like the rich history they had here in the UK, which apparently meant nothing as they disappeared in to the Turkish sunset... Very sad and short sighted, much the same as this situation :(
 
You guys could be dealing with GM, great ignition switches, bail outs, cover ups on said switches........................
 
Just to make sure that you know that 'Spelt' is an ancient grain that is making a comeback and is regularly part of a multigrain mix for breads today.
 
34Fordtk said:
You guys could be dealing with GM, great ignition switches, bail outs, cover ups on said switches........................
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I was thinking the same thing, you could add Chrysler products , imagine having a Dodge and a Fiat in your garage, you would be able to hear them rusting away in stereo.
 
So this is a TRIPLING of price? Was $5 (total $105) and now $315?

Maybe a new Ford pickup is NOT in my future? Not with product support like that.

And these are parts whose development was fully amortized back in the 1930s? And the manufacturer (Ford) has chosen not to continue making for reasons of (of course) non-profitability?

So in effect, Ford has no use for these drawings?

And now could be (should be) provided at the cost of electronic duplication and transfer?

I've timed myself getting copies from my company's documentum. It's about a minute a sheet including walking over to the printer. 20 minutes brings me the entire nuclear module structural drawings for correction or information.

An electronic transfer could be completed in less time (and frequently is by the documentum people themselves when they are called upon to do it.)

Sorry. I know a moneymaker when I see one.

Joe K
 
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