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How Many ACTUALLY Made?

Post by 1194668jc » Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:35 am

I'm confused. People say that the 15,000,000th Ford was the final Model T ever made. BUT! I do remember several times in the past being told that more were made than 15,000,000. I got a variety of numbers from 15,500,000 all the way up to 17,000,000?! I haven't had this explained to me yet in 6 years, anyone care to enlighten me?
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Post by Kerry » Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:58 am

Click on Home, left top corner, then open Research and then the Encyclopedia, Serial Numbers will answer your question.
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Post by BLB27 » Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:09 am

For 1927 Ts the enclyclopedia says "Black wire wheels became standard on the closed cars late in the year but were optional until that time." My question: Before the wire wheels became standard, were the optional wire wheels black or could they have ordered a color and if so, what wheel colors were vailable?
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Re: How Many ACTUALLY Made?

Post by TonyB » Sat Aug 08, 2020 1:02 am

15,007,033 at end of primary production in may 1927

They built several thousand more engines until 1941.

It’s all in the Encyclopedia section of this site 😊
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Post by JohnH » Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:45 am

My understanding is the often quoted '15 million' is the U.S. production only. What was the Canadian production?
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Re: How Many ACTUALLY Made?

Post by DanTreace » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:47 am

Canadian production of Model T : 757,030

Great ref. data from Hap Tucker in this 2003 post "Actual Numbers Built".

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/33 ... 1366771270
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Re: How Many ACTUALLY Made?

Post by JohnH » Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:21 pm

DanTreace wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:47 am
 Canadian production of Model T : 757,030

Great ref. data from Hap Tucker in this 2003 post "Actual Numbers Built".

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/33 ... 1366771270
Thanks, Dan. So it does seem Model T production is actually closer to 16 million, which is what I have always thought.
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