Worcester County Model A Club
Worcester County Model A Club
Started in 1991 the club is for enthusiasts of the Model A Ford both young and old whether you own one now or did back in the day and just want to tell the stories of wrenching on the road, the Roadster that got away, or the Tudor behind your uncles barn when you were a kid.The Ford Model A
The Model A Ford went into production on October 20th 1927, the A was set to replace the venerable Model T that had a hugely successful 18 year production run. The first car was sold on December 2nd 1927, in March 1932 the A’s production run ended after 4,858,644 cars had been built.
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A of the Day
This day in Automotive History
May 26, 1923 First Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run.
May 26, 1927 Ford Motor Company manufactured its 15
millionth Model T automobile
May 26, 1937 Union leaders, Ford Service Department men
clashed in violent confrontation on Miller Road Overpass
outside Gate 4 of Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, MI (three
months after UAW achieved its first landmark victory at Ford,
had forced company to negotiate policy toward organized labor
by staging lengthy sit-down strike at Rouge complex); UAW
organizers Walter Reuther, Bob Kanter, J.J. Kennedy, Richard
Frankensteen were distributing leaflets among workers at
Rouge complex when approached by gang of Bennett's men;
Ford Servicemen brutally beat four unionists while many other
union sympathizers, including 11 women, were injured in
resulting melee - Battle of the Overpass.
Henry Ford Quote of the Day
The 15,000,000 Model T
