Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace, 1910-1927: Ford Workers in the Model T Era
Cuisine Kathleen (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today on our way over to Riverhead, I stopped to take a pic of this Long Island landmark. For years, kids have lined up in front of the duck to have their pic taken. This is from Wikipedia… The Big Duck is a building in the shape of a duck located in Flanders, New York , on Long Island . It was originally built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer in nearby Riverhead , and used as a shop to...
Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
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Ford Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Here's a daunting thought in this age of rapid technological advancement. Fuel economy in the U.S. vehicle fleet has changed little since the days of the Ford Model T. In a recent study, Michael Sivak and Omer Tsimhoni at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute calculated the distance driven and fuel consumed for the U.S. fleet of vehicles – including cars, light trucks,...
Stix Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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Ecofriend (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Eco Factor: Prototype electric vehicle powered by solar energy. A student team at the Waterloo Collegiate Institute has designed a Model-T replica that doesn’t drink gas but harnesses the abundant energy of the sun for power. The truck was built.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The x-ray has been voted the most important modern discovery by participants in a poll to mark the Science Museum's centenary year. Members of the public were asked to vote on 10 of the greatest achievements in science, engineering and technology selected by its curators. Nearly 50,000 votes were cast by visitors to the museum in London and on its website. Penicillin was voted second; followed by...
Political Inaction (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The Ford Model-T got 21 MPG in the early 1900s. The MPG of our current fleet? 21 MPG. Way to go progress!
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Say what you want about the Prius (and no doubt you will) but it is a car that ushered in a new era of automotive history. It made saving fuel and being “green” trendy. When automotive history is written, the Toyota Prius will be along side cars like the Ford Model-T, The Citroen DS, the [...]
Green Wombat (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
photo: Todd Woody Ford executives brought a battery-powered Focus sedan to San Francisco on Thursday (along with a plug-in hybrid Escape). It was clear from the presentation by Nancy Gioia, Ford’s director of global electrification, that the automaker is aiming for a mass market and is spending a great deal of effort on helping create an [...]
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
We've been doing the Engine Of The Day series for a couple of years, so it's time we put all the EOTD honorees together! Click on the photo of any engine below to jump to the original post honoring that engine. Toyota R Ford Flathead V8 BMW M30 Nissan L Small-Block Chevrolet V8 Volkswagen Air-Cooled BMC B Series Chrysler Slant Six Rolls-Royce V8 Honda B GMC Twin Six Jaguar XK Pontiac V8 Mazda B Fiat...
SEOptimise Blog (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
CC: Ford Model T image by me’nthedogs Does SEO still exist today as such? In other words: Does what people imagine to be SEO still exist in the way the people define it? No, this is not another “SEO has no future” post. Indeed by now we have arrived in the ominous future of SEO, at least [...] © SEOptimise. Signup for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter and hire us for Search Engine...
short fat guy online (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Footage of the "T Party" to celebrate the Ford Model T Centennial. Shot outside the Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn MI, on Friday, September 5 2008.
Msquared2 PR/Talent Agency (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
From Zippo Cars to the Peepmobile: 7 Bizarre Marketing Vehicles by Erica Palan If your college was anything like mine, a day didn’t go by without some company giving out free samples in wacky cars . The Red Bull car even had its own parking space down the street from the dorms. (Trying to resist the temptation when walking past a giant can of Red Bull before an early class is absolute torture.)...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Let us pause a moment to consider the sad state of the Liberals in Alberta, if only to give premier Ed Stelmach -- daily facing new and embarrassing fractures in his PC party -- a short break from his hotseat. For, more than anything else, a province-wide poll out today from Lethbridge College’s Citizen Society Research Lab is most depressing for the party that last formed the provincial government...
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