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Originally Posted by jetrod
When I was a youth, in the 50"s, the #1 engine sat is the Henry Ford Museum, on an engine stand, along with the picture of Henry stamping the engine. The phaeton body was displayed elsewhere in the museum. Later,about 1882, as a then member of the Motor Cities Chapter, I with 4 or 5 other members, volunteered to replace the #1 engine into the #1 phaeton, as requested by the museum.
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I searched the Ford Museum site and could only locate the photo of him stamping the engine not the engine itself.
I suspect there are 2 engines with the # 1 on them: The first approved engine that Henry stamped with just the 1 digit and the *A1* stamped engine that went into the Phaeton Henry gave to Edison.
The Phaeton provenance is solid. It was gifted back to Ford by Edison's widow in 1943. It would be interesting to see that paperwork and any photos of the car at the time.
Here is the video at the point they talk about the car coming back from Edison:
https://youtu.be/1OXrVLF5Y9o?t=416
I suspect the B&W photo is the Edison car in 1928 due to the paint scheme. It's at Ford's Engineering lab which makes sense for it to get a final test and inspection before delivery. The second photo is taken outside Edison's Fort Meyers Laboratory while the car was at Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Both are from Ford's archives.
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