ABSTRACT
The Ford Model T was far more than the first notable success story for the fledgling automotive industry. According to Richard Nichols, Almost alone, the Model T wrought a social revolution across North America. The culmination of this vision, the Model T, began production in Detroit on October 1, 1908. The continually increasing rate of sales, the substitution of lower quality materials, and assembly line refinements resulting in greater production efficiency enabled Ford to continually lower the price tag of the Model T. As noted by Nichols, The roads of the time were little more than dirt tracks, and the Model T was well suited to them. A victim of changing fashions and the opulence of the Roaring Twenties, the Model T ceased production in 1928, after more than 15,000,000 had been sold. The adoption of the left-hand drive configuration as the norm in the United States represented yet another legacy of the car.
