1903 Ford Model A Touring Car outside Henry Ford Museum, 1949

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Artifact Overview

In naming its first product, Ford Motor Company logically settled on "Model A." The two-cylinder automobile could be fitted with an optional tonneau -- a rear seat compartment -- entered through a door in the back. The Model A was one of the first large-production cars with a steering wheel instead of a tiller. Total production was somewhere above 670 units.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

26 April 1949

Creator Notes

Photographed by John P. Breeden for Ford Motor Company Photographic Department, Dearborn, Michigan.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.88852.10

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.5 in
Width: 10.25 in

1903 Ford Model A Touring Car outside Henry Ford Museum, 1949