Two somewhat lesser-known stories about the Ford Model T
Daniel Reinhard
12/27/2016
12/27/2016
Almost everyone knows that the Ford Model T was delivered in all colors as long as it was black. However, this story is not true for the entire production period.
However, the following two lesser-known facts are true:
Probably the longest sales trip of all time was undertaken by a Ford dealer in 1912, when he drove 800 miles across the Gobi Desert to sell a Ford Model T to the high priest of Mongolia.
Many decades ago, a Korean wrote to Henry Ford that the Model T was the most successful tiger scare in the whole country. It far surpassed the effect of the usual drums.
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