The Ford Barn

Bruce Lancaster · 01-31-2013, 10:59 AM

Just for your further reading, I've posted lists of '32 and other early Ford patents on here somewhere. There are several patents relating to production and non-production aspects of the chassis design, none of them unfortunately actually relevant here.
Ford tended to get the patents out after stuff was already in production, but cranking through the patents of Model A--1936 period gives a lot of information on Ford tech thinking.
Ford also had a lot of wild-card patents, planetary tranmissions (not Model T!), pumpless oiling, rear engines and wild chassis designs...I think HF wanted to make sure that the Ford tradition of doing nearly everything differently from the industry at large carried on.

01-31-2013, 10:59 AM	#11
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: 1932 Ford Chassis without the Reveal. Just for your further reading, I've posted lists of '32 and other early Ford patents on here somewhere. There are several patents relating to production and non-production aspects of the chassis design, none of them unfortunately actually relevant here. Ford tended to get the patents out after stuff was already in production, but cranking through the patents of Model A--1936 period gives a lot of information on Ford tech thinking. Ford also had a lot of wild-card patents, planetary tranmissions (not Model T!), pumpless oiling, rear engines and wild chassis designs...I think HF wanted to make sure that the Ford tradition of doing nearly everything differently from the industry at large carried on.