This picture just appeared on the Farm magazine news email. Does any one know when it was originally used?
I don't know the answer to your question Darel, but that TT sure looks like it goes faster than mine, and uphill at that!
Fast is relative. When you were used to leading a bunch of cows to market walking at about two miles an hour, a TT going ten miles an hour was really flying!
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Those dairy cows must be very used to being in a pen. My load of beef cattle I sold last week would have been over those low side boards and off the truck about as quick as they were loaded.
(quicker than a high speed camera)
It’s from an ad for the Muncie auxiliary transmission for the Model T truck
that was on the cover of Farm Mechanics magazine for September, 1926.
Gotta love those Muncies!
My truck has a Muncie, but.....
Doing a little quick calculation, neglecting friction, assuming total weight of 6,500 pounds, 20 horsepower, the right gearing, and a 10 degree hill, the speed would be about 6 mph. In reality, probably about 4 mph.
Neil
I have that magazine. The competition must have been pretty fierce, there are 5 or 6 different covers advertising the Muncie and other auxiliary transmissions. Chicago, Jumbo Giant, Warford, Lincoln, Rocky Mountain and many others would give your Ford all the power you needed for anything. The Model T and the mechanizing of the American farm in the late teens and twenties supported Farm Mechanics pretty lavishly. They had a color cover every month with some tractor company, implement dealer or related paying for the cover spot. I should know who painted all those covers but can't think of his name right now. They are worthy of a wall display in any farm museum. By the late 20's dozens of makers had fallen by the wayside, the new Ford didn't require the kind of maintenance the T did and Farm Mechanics became smaller and smaller, soon there were no color covers or backs, fewer and fewer ads and, as radio became a dominant advertising force in the late twenties and early thirties, it ceased publication all together. I bought the entire collection of Farm Mechanics magazines from 1920 to 1929 at the Oscar's Dreamland auction in Billings, Montana about 12 or 14 years ago and have gradually sold them off or given them to farm collectors. The Ford advice column alone should be gathered into a book -- it shows how new things like the Ford starting and lighting system were a mystery to many owners. While their questions seem ridiculous to many of us today, in the day it was all new. Just as all this technology is to us today, it was a learning curve.
We tend to forget toady, even tho the Internet has only been around for less than 20 years for most of us, what it was like to get mail in the days when it came once or twice a week and virtually all contact with the outside world was in the mail. Radio was always entertainment and news and TV was comedy and drama after it came along but not much real content. Magazines were where you got your knowledge. Remember all those schools that advertised in the magazines??? Learn to be a tractor mechanic, Learn to fix radios, learn to be an accountant. All through mail order. I wonder if they even do that anymore. Probably all on Skype now.
You're so right, Stan. I have often explained to people that a truck with a max speed of about 18 MPH (stock TT) might seem pretty slow by today's standards, but in 1918 it was flat out flying. Folks were accustomed to horse/mule power. The new TT's could not only go a lot faster, they could do it all day long. Furthermore, there were few roads that would accommodated speeds above 20 MPH or so anyhow.
It's all relative, a fact that is often overlooked by most of us as we become acclimated to new technology of the day.