Terein rijden ging toen ook al.
Geplaatst: ma 28 feb 2011, 22:00
Het is wel een beetje off-topic maar erg leuk.
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En als je dit van wiki leest was de wagen ook aardig versatile:
Diverse applications in a world not yet widely paved, motorised, or electrified
When the Model T was designed and introduced, the infrastructure of the world was quite different from today's. Pavement was a rarity except for sidewalks and a few big-city streets. (The sense of the term "pavement" as equivalent with "sidewalk" comes from that era, when streets and roads were generally dirt (mud during rainy periods) and sidewalks were a paved way to walk down them without getting one's feet and legs dirty. In fact, this was a motive for segregating foot traffic from carriage traffic long before the speed of automobiles provided another motive.) Agriculture was still the occupation of a large percentage of people. Power tools were scarce outside factories, as were any power sources to run them from; electrification, like pavement, was to be found only in some places, usually larger towns and cities. Rural electrification and motorised mechanisation were embryonic in North America and Europe, and nonexistent elsewhere.
Henry Ford oversaw the requirements and design of the Model T based on the realities of that (now often forgotten) world. Consequently, the Model T was (intentionally) almost as much a tractor and stationary engine as it was (what we would now call) an automobile, that is, a vehicle dedicated solely to road use. It has always been well regarded for its all-terrain abilities and ruggedness. It could drive down a rocky, muddy farm lane, ford a shallow stream, climb a steep hill, and be parked on the other side to have one of its wheels removed and a pulley fastened to the hub for a flat belt to drive a bucksaw, thresher, silo blower, conveyor for filling corn cribs or haylofts, baler, water pump (for wells, mines, or swampy farm fields), electrical generator, and countless other applications.
During this era, entire automobiles (including thousands of Model Ts) were even hacked apart by their industrious owners and reconfigured into custom machinery permanently dedicated to a purpose, such as homemade tractors, ice saws,[26] or many others. Dozens of aftermarket companies even sold prefab kits to facilitate the T's conversion from car to tractor.[27] In a world mostly without mechanised cultivators, Model Ts filled quite a vacuum, as row-crop tractors such as the Farmall did not become widespread until the 1930s. Like many popular car engines of the era, the Model T engine was also used on home-built aircraft (such as the Pietenpol Air Camper) and motorboats.
En de remmen op de voorwielen waren zo goed dat die nooit stuk gingen.
Arnold.
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En als je dit van wiki leest was de wagen ook aardig versatile:
Diverse applications in a world not yet widely paved, motorised, or electrified
When the Model T was designed and introduced, the infrastructure of the world was quite different from today's. Pavement was a rarity except for sidewalks and a few big-city streets. (The sense of the term "pavement" as equivalent with "sidewalk" comes from that era, when streets and roads were generally dirt (mud during rainy periods) and sidewalks were a paved way to walk down them without getting one's feet and legs dirty. In fact, this was a motive for segregating foot traffic from carriage traffic long before the speed of automobiles provided another motive.) Agriculture was still the occupation of a large percentage of people. Power tools were scarce outside factories, as were any power sources to run them from; electrification, like pavement, was to be found only in some places, usually larger towns and cities. Rural electrification and motorised mechanisation were embryonic in North America and Europe, and nonexistent elsewhere.
Henry Ford oversaw the requirements and design of the Model T based on the realities of that (now often forgotten) world. Consequently, the Model T was (intentionally) almost as much a tractor and stationary engine as it was (what we would now call) an automobile, that is, a vehicle dedicated solely to road use. It has always been well regarded for its all-terrain abilities and ruggedness. It could drive down a rocky, muddy farm lane, ford a shallow stream, climb a steep hill, and be parked on the other side to have one of its wheels removed and a pulley fastened to the hub for a flat belt to drive a bucksaw, thresher, silo blower, conveyor for filling corn cribs or haylofts, baler, water pump (for wells, mines, or swampy farm fields), electrical generator, and countless other applications.
During this era, entire automobiles (including thousands of Model Ts) were even hacked apart by their industrious owners and reconfigured into custom machinery permanently dedicated to a purpose, such as homemade tractors, ice saws,[26] or many others. Dozens of aftermarket companies even sold prefab kits to facilitate the T's conversion from car to tractor.[27] In a world mostly without mechanised cultivators, Model Ts filled quite a vacuum, as row-crop tractors such as the Farmall did not become widespread until the 1930s. Like many popular car engines of the era, the Model T engine was also used on home-built aircraft (such as the Pietenpol Air Camper) and motorboats.
En de remmen op de voorwielen waren zo goed dat die nooit stuk gingen.
Arnold.