photo from the collections of The Henry Ford
That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became good friends later in their lives is well known. They camped together, they presented each other with lavish gifts, they owned houses immediately adjacent to each other. Many Ford enthusiasts also know that, at the time Ford first drove his Quadricycle […]
Anymore, the “challenge” part of the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge has been finding a marque (or pair of marques) suitably obscure, but still with enough connectivity to the rest of the automotive world to make for an interesting exercise. As we’ve noted time and again, the most difficult thing is to find […]
Seventy-two years ago today, you could, given half a mind, drive up to the front entrance of the White House in your 1921 Model T, and baffle Capitol Police by demanding to see Henry Ford. “Where’s Henry?” shouted Ernest A. Franke, a 90-year-old retired baker, from the driver’s seat. “I want to show him his […]