I'm a little slow

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: I'm a little slow
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 06:00 pm:

Occasionally a Model T or a Model T engine will turn up at an auction and I'd like to look up the serial number. It finally dawned on me that I could download my Model T Encyclopedia disks to a laptop and take all that info with me. Welcome to the new century.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 06:14 pm:

Steve,
You are behind the times. On your smart phone just access http://www.mtfca.com/encyclo/sernos.htm and leave your lap top at home.
Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 06:21 pm:

Two guys have given me business cards with the engine numbers/years printed on the backs. Fits in the wallet and is always there. Handy.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Derek Kiefer - Dexter, MN on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 06:22 pm:

MTFCI membership cards have the serial number range for each calendar year printed on them... I've used mine several times to look up the year of an engine for sale.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 07:21 pm:


Jim, this is the smartest phone I have. It's so old most of the numbers have worn off.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mack Cole ---- Earth on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 07:40 pm:

Steve my dad,78,carrys that same phone except blue.The lady at the phone office told him to hang on to it for dear life as it was 1 tough phone and the reception is much better than the new models.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dana A. Crosby in Glendale, Az on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 07:59 pm:

I bet there's an anorak out there that just memorized the date range....no fuss..no muss


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Thode Chehalis Washington on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 10:57 pm:

Steve,
Your phone looks about like mine. I thought everyone had a smart phone but me.
Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Hughes, Raymond, NE on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:38 pm:

Steve, At least it doesn't have a rotary dial!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ted Dumas on Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:55 pm:

Our newsletter editor printed business cards for our club members with the name and pertinent information on the front and engine serial numbers on the back.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 09:17 am:

We keep a rotary dial phone at home, as when the power goes off, the new ones do not function. A young neighbour came over (we young by my standard, she was 20) and looked at the phone and poked her finger in each hole, and asked "how do you make it work?"
I still have my brick, but I can not get batteries for it any more.
Best
Gus


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 09:35 am:

Gus, an old-car friend of mine was driving his granddaughter somewhere in a fifties car. He asked her to open the window, but she looked and said she didn't know how. He told her to grasp the end of the window crank and rotate it. She did, and the window opened. Her response was, "Wow, cool!!"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 11:00 am:

The inability to operate obsolete things is something that we can laugh at, but there is something happening that will isolate the next generations from their history, that is the loss of cursive script. It will not be long before people will not be able to read their ancestors writings, this is not something that is speculative, I have seen it happen in Germany. In the 1930s Germany stopped using the style of script that had been used for ages, and now letters and diaries are being thrown into the trash every day because the current generation can not read it. The up side is that some sell their history on fleabay, and I have managed to acquire some very interesting personal histories from WWI that way.
Best
Gus


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:40 pm:

You have that right Gustaf, I donated a copy of Mein Kampf to the military museum where I work that my (late) stepfather brought back from Germany after WW2. It had a dedication inside the front cover written in old German, I had a devil of time getting it translated. We get visitors from all over the world and it finally boiled down to a very old German couple visiting the museum who could read old German. Though I had managed to get it loosely translated, they confirmed that it said "To our son Bastel, war time, Christmas time 1943". They were surprised to see our extensive collection of NAZI memorabilia and it was obvious they had mixed emotions about it, as do our older Japanese visitors when they see our captured WW2 Japanese artifacts.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:59 pm:

Hey Dennis,
I had a the mother of a friend give me about 150 post cards from relatives written during WWI, they could not read the writing, but with a bit of study and help form a Belgian and Thor the Norse God of Thunder, I was able to transcribe all of them. There were about 40 from an uncle who had been captured by the French in 1915, and he spent the rest of the war in a POW camp near Marseille, in April he wrote home wondering when he would be able to come home, the next card from the POW camp was sent by his bunk mate in August, telling the family that he had succumbed to the Spanish Influenza.
War time post cards are usually easy, as they all say the same thing, no matter what language they are written in, usually thanking someone for a letter of package, and telling them that they are in good health. Post cards were censored, and for that reason could not have much information.
I have found that letters send by German soldiers usually have much more information than letters sent by US soldiers which were also censored.
Best
Gus


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rick J. Gunter on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 01:15 pm:

Determining the year of an engine--there should be an app for that. I'm a software engineer--Maybe I should write one.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Halpin on Friday, April 27, 2012 - 06:44 pm:

Gustaf,we have many such artifacts from WW1 on through what is going on in the middle east now, mostly but not completely, from American soldiers.
Probably the saddest ones are the genuine "We Regret To Inform You........" telegrams, the women at home got.
We have a flight log kept by a B-17 ground crew maintenance man with a rather cryptic statement in it. In the column of "# of take-off's" it lists 13. Under "# of landings" it lists 12. (It didn't return from the 13th mission).


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