Ford dealers with empty showrooms!
Many Ford dealers showrooms had no Model A to show during Jan Feb , Mars April, and May 1928. In may they got window posters from Ford " wait for The New Ford " You must say that the Forddealers were brave.
Even late summer 1928 there were not many dealers that had got a model A on the display. In June the dealers got a folder from Ford Motor Company showing the Ford and with explanations why that A was so long delayed. " Fords president passion for improvement " and the long running start to stock up the assembly plants.
The New Ford - Success!
To solve the problem with empty showrooms, Ford representatives drew cars from dealer to dealer to make it possible to show the car for one hour in each town. By January 10 1928 727.000 Model As were sold and that with empty showrooms!
The production in early January was about 125-140 cars per day. The production increased dramatically and the market welcomed the Model A. The public pronounced the Model A as the complete success! The millionth model A was produced February 1928. At that moment Ford manufactured 7500 cars per day! In June Ford set record with 9100 cars on one day.
Ford outstanding again!
Ford was once again the leader in Automobile production. Ford A was produced during 1928-31 in more than
4 000.000 units. A lot of them still remains today and more cars will be restored every year. Just in Sweden there are about 3500 A today 1997.
Ford on it`s way to Sweden!
In January 1928 wrote the newspaper "Svenska Journalen" like this:
The New Ford car "for every man" is on it’s way to Sweden. They also had a story about The development of Ford Motor Company. Svenska Journalen was a newspaper mainly for households and they normally didn`t write about cars. Some interesting pitcures were shown as "The New Ford Car" and it looks like the pictures are from England. The Ford A has small lights on the fenders.
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Henry Ford, his son Edsel and Edsels two sons in front of the New Ford Car.
They also made a comparison between one of Henry Ford´s first cars and The New Ford A. They can also tell us that the difference is notable. If you look closely it seems like the front bumper on the Ford behind the old Ford car has open ends. That gives us the information that even cars in England had open bumper ends. The often heard theory that only 200 of the very first cars were equipped with those bumpers can that still be correct ? If this was one of the pre series cars why put on fender lights just for a visit in England? Can anyone of you give us the correct answer?
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This picture, also from England tells us that this sportscar for sure will become popular.
This Sport Coupe has also open bumper ends and fender lights. Do we have two of the first 200 cars standing in England January 1928 ? In the text I can read following
" From birth to death is a Ford cars lifetime about 7 years but there are some long living cars that stands for 14-15 years".
My friends what do you say about that ? We know better and just here in Sweden we have at least 3500 Ford A cars. Approx. 1000 of them can be driven on our roads today.
I think it is interesting to see those very early cars in England and I know of several very early cars now existing in Sweden. We have the 189 car here and one with frame number and engine number about 1000 and one engine about 500. Finland got one of it`s first Ford A deliverd with engine number 1500. That was a Tudor.
If you know of anyone that have a very early Ford A please let us know. It you want to we can publish it here at NetClassics Internet. E-mail:netclassics@usa.net
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