"Oldest" Ford Motor Company Employees with Fifteen-Millionth Model T Engine on Last Day of Model T Production, May 26, 1927
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The assembly of the fifteen millionth Model T, the ceremonial "last" Model T, was a major event for Ford Motor Company. The automaker's eight senior-most employees -- Fred Rockelman, Gus Degener, Frank Kulick, Charles Meida, Charles Sorensen, Charles Hartner, P.E. Martin, and John Wandersee -- each hand-stamped one of the serial number's eight digits into the engine's number plate.
The assembly of the fifteen millionth Model T, the ceremonial "last" Model T, was a major event for Ford Motor Company. The automaker's eight senior-most employees -- Fred Rockelman, Gus Degener, Frank Kulick, Charles Meida, Charles Sorensen, Charles Hartner, P.E. Martin, and John Wandersee -- each hand-stamped one of the serial number's eight digits into the engine's number plate.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
26 May 1927
Subject Date
26 May 1927
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Highland Park
Automobile industry executives
Degener, Augustus (Gus), 1883-1948
Sorensen, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1881-1968
Hartner, Charles B., 1884-1952
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.49133
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 11 in
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