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Sure, and somewhere around here I have the part number for the charcoal briquettes Ford used to sell, too. No, I'm not kidding...Ford used to sell briquettes, they also sold tires with Ford script on them, and they sold soybean oil, too.
C1TZ-8150202-A .. Umbrella, paint to match
C1TZ-8150202-A .. Umbrella, paint to match
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Originally Posted by NumberDummy
Sure, and somewhere around here I have the part number for the charcoal briquettes Ford used to sell, too. No, I'm not kidding...Ford used to sell briquettes, they also sold tires with Ford script on them, and they sold soybean oil, too.
C1TZ-8150202-A .. Umbrella, paint to match
C1TZ-8150202-A .. Umbrella, paint to match
No way.....
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Henry Ford was very aggressive in owning or controlling all aspects of production - he owned iron mines in Minnesota, forests for lumber, the barges used to haul coke, glass factories, etc., - and rubber plantations in Malaya for all I know, for tires. Vertical and horizontal integration or somesuch. He didn't like having to go to other suppliers who could name their price for a critical item or part.
Anyhoo, Ford factories ended up with a lot of scrap lumber ends and odds that really couldn't be used for anything. But never one to waste much of anything, he had his researchers come up with - Kingsford. Briquettes.
Anyhoo, Ford factories ended up with a lot of scrap lumber ends and odds that really couldn't be used for anything. But never one to waste much of anything, he had his researchers come up with - Kingsford. Briquettes.
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Did'ja know that Ford was one of the first to experiment with plastics? He had a 1941 Ford Fordor sedan's hood, fenders, deck lid, and body side panels made from...are you ready...a plastic like composition made from soybean oil. There's a famous picture of 'ol Henry taken in 1941. There he is, in top coat and fedora, swinging an axe at the deck lid of the 1941 Ford sedan. It's a before picture...no one seems to know what happened next.
Last edited by NumberDummy; Apr 18, 2007 at 12:35 PM.
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