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Just every now and then...
#1
Whilst working on Archive materials, I occasionaly come across something that makes a connection to someone back when the item was in their hands or on their desk. At the moment, I am working through the backlog of brochures that the Archive has acquired over the past few months as a period of respite(!) from the Centenary planning. Yesterday, when scanning a new 'Van' brochure, this appeared. I really rather love it..

   
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#2
I wonder what Ford., Ts here at that time had very low scrap value. Seems unlikely they would have given a large discount plus an inflated trade in price. Maybe it was an A, the tax even on the disembowelled UK model would have discouraged use.
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#3
I would think that £10 for a Model T could well be close to scrap value; typically a Seven would be around £4-£5 as scrap.
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#4
I guess scrap fetched more in UK as could be recycled locally. Into the 70s many car bodies here were simply buried. I towed a stripped Javelin to the (free!!) tip by inserting a big 7 chassis rail up the drive tunnel and pinning it the towbar of my everyday Javelin. A brake adjuster fell out and wedged a rear wheel so I had to spend an awkwrd and very visible quarter hour on the roadsise unsorting. In those days were allowed to tow anything "for repair." ( stock car fans used to tow cars 100 miles Wellington to Palmerston and the battered wrecks back again the same night!)
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