Vintage Film/Movies

[WTSHNN]

I stumbled across this site a while ago and forgot about it until today.

Did a search of "Model-A" and came up with these results...
http://www.criticalpast.com/products...=%22model-a%22

A search of "Model A" produces these results.
http://www.criticalpast.com/products...=%22model+a%22

Here is a video of Thomas Edison driving a Tudor out of the factory
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...wd-follows-car

Wander around, pretty cool!
-Tim

[ldj1002]

I have always heard that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were good friends. However I saw 2 movies, 1 about Henry Ford and the other about Thomas Edison and neither movie mentioned their friendship. I believe the movie about Ford did mention about he worked for Edison but nothing about them being friends. That kinda seemed strange to me.

[Special Coupe Frank]

I hope the one about Henry Ford wasn't that awful thing starring Cliff Robertson...

The only movie I remember about Tom Edison was called "Young Tom Edison" (I think) and starred Mickey Rooney... it was made in the early 1940's, I believe.

Historical fact: Henry Ford and Thomas Edison did become close personal friends, and Henry Ford did work for Detroit Edison Electric Co., as a steam-engineer in one of the power-plants. This would have been in the very late 1880's - early to mid 1890's. Henry Ford was still working for Detroit Edison when completed and successfully ran his Quadracycle in 1896. Edison and Ford's friendship developed after Ford devoted himself to the automobile.

After the Model T became a huge success, and Henry Ford was on his way to becoming a multi-millionaire, Ford, Edison, John Burroughs the naturalist, Harvey Firestone, and other heavy-hitters used to go on camping trips that lasted for a couple of weeks... of course they traveled in cars, and brought along staff to help with mundane things such as cooking and so-forth.

Never trust Hollywood movies to give you an accurate historical accounting even if actual historic persons are characters in a given movie...

( PS. There was at least one other Edison moive: "Edison, the Man", starring Spencer Tracy.)

[flatheadernie]

YOU might ck out the movies of the camp outs they did together, awsome footage !!

[700rpm]

I got a chuckle out of Edsel getting into the sports coupe... he had to try three times to get the door to close. I often do the same with my 30 PU!

[RcT]

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Just curious here... the film on the 20 millionth Ford shows Henry looking at the engine serial number, which indicates it was *A20000000*. That really wasn't so, was it?

[WTSHNN]

Originally Posted by RcT

Just curious here... the film on the 20 millionth Ford shows Henry looking at the engine serial number, which indicates it was *A20000000*. That really wasn't so, was it?

No, it would have been somewhere in the 4 million range. Also, notice how at one point the 20,000,000th is RHD :-)


-Tim

[Ken Ehrenhofer]

Hi Jeff,
I just watched some of them and they are great thanks for sharing I am going to show to all my Model A Friends and maybe at my parts swap,
Thanks again,
Ken

[d.j. moordigian]

If you look close at the third video, with Thomas Edison in the Tudor, the car has
the v-early front bumper with the closed ends. Ron Rude has the same front
bumper on his v-early truck/delivery.

Dudley