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Mar 5, 2020 | 11:13 PM

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Ford flathead development

From You tube - one hour long. Video won't play from copy/paste
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1932 - The Invention of the Ford V8 Engine

Mar 5, 2020 | 11:34 PM

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Mar 6, 2020 | 02:01 PM

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Thanks Wayne - once I saw it didn't work I tried to delete the post. Guess I haven't done much with this site in a long time.

Mar 6, 2020 | 02:15 PM

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I clicked on your link and found it didn't work, but was able to find it easily enough. I did a simple copy and paste and it worked fine for me. It was an interesting video. What they said about the secret development is what I've always read. Henry didn't even let his engineers talk to each other. He was the sole go-between among everyone. Pretty amazing what they accomplished in just a few months with such crude equipment and facilities, not to mention Henry's strict oversight. Today, you couldn't find a team to do that even with computers to do all the heavy lifting.