History What the heck was henry thinking?

This may be the photo you are referring too. HRP

 

What happened to the thread ***le?
HRP? Or the powers that be?

 

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Better yet, what was he thinking when he turned the 32 Ford into a 33 Ford???

 

Didn't that car become the Saturn?

 

Kind'a interesting.https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-truth-about-henry-fords-soybean-car/

 

They could have named it the '41 Ford Maui Wowie. Park one in a bad neighborhood and it wouldn't get stolen, just smoked.
True story...in 1969 I'm on a family vacation out West somewhere when traffic is stopped, a roadblock. Ahead is a van full of hippies. Grandad asks police what's going on? Officer says they're burning off a field of pot up ahead, so be sure windows rolled up tight.
We're going along like 5 mph... Grandad's honking his horn...van ahead everyone is hanging out the windows, doors open, breathing DEEP. [emoji16]

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They were making Hemp rope here in Plymouth at Cordage Park since the 1800s .At one point they were the worlds largest manufacturer .Shipping all over the world .
All gone now . they kept the building's and made them into retail space.Leave it to Henry to have his fingers in those pies,cookies an ashtrays

 

This tells all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

This part should appeal to you guys:

 

When I was a kid on a farm in Iowa in the 40's we grew hemp for rope and baler twine. For the twine we hauled the hemp to THE PRISON where they had a big jute mill. No cash was allowed to change hands so if you hauled in enough to make a thousand pounds of twine you got 800 back and money for the remaining 200 went into the prisoners commissary account. We watched the jute mill operation and they stripped off the leaves and THREW THEM AWAY. Also remember the smell of smoldering hemp rope which happened often when near welding or cutting.

 

Hemp and manila made fine rope, and Silk parachutes (and stockings for the broads) but Nylon made all the old school stuff obsolete.

The ditches and fields in Iowa still had lots of it growing wild when I was growing up. Birds love the seed. But "you can't even copp a good headache from it" was the word from the stoners.

 

I have personal experience with Nebraska ditch weed. You can get one hell of a headache and nothing more from it. Correction you can also get one hell of a sore throat from it. Don't ask me how I know.

 

There are several Ford sites here in the Upper Peninsula besides Iron Mountan and Kingsford.

Gwinn was a Ford Model Town (the high school teams were the Model Towners and Kingsfords team was the Flivers), Alberta was an experimental sawmill and model town site that is now part of Michigan Tech’s Ford Forestry center, and there was a large Ford sawmill in the ghost town of Pequaming on Keewenaw Bay in Lake Superior.

Alberta has had the 1938 or 39 Ford ton and a half fire truck parked by the entrance to town during tourist season for several years. Didn’t see it this year, though.

He also had extensive iron ore holdings on the Marquette range, and it wasn’t uncommon to see Ford badged lake freighters as late as the 1960s, and beyond.

Henry used to organize camping trips up here with his buddies Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone, a**** others.

 

There was a show on History about a rubber plantation in South America..... Not sure what country though....

 

I changed the wording trying to keep it on track. HRP

 

Hemp was kicking cotton's *** in the 30s. Thanks to Harry Anslinger and Hearst's "yellow journalism" pioneers like Ford and others were left out of future developments for hemp such as bio fuels and even clothing. Soy was also prominent in the original "Green Industry" Ford wanted. He really was big on going green well before the schtick we're served of late. Who knows about "soybean enamel"?

 

Yeah hemp usually gets confused with marijuana, seems to be a common misconception. When my son was about seven or eight we bought him a pair of pants for rough-housing and just being a boy. Similar activities wore out his jeans quickly but this pair of pants hardly showed any wear. Checked the label and they were made of hemp. Never could remember where we bought them but I wished I could have bought a pair or two. Blew cotton demin right out of the water. Down in the states was/is there a large cotton growers lobby group?

 

Interesting thread.

 

He was thinking about beating the Budd Company at their own game. Ever since the Model T firewall went from wood to fabricated sheetmetal to pressed steel the programme had been to make more and more of the manufacturing process dependent on steel pressings, that representing a manufacturing technique only available to highly capitalized en***ies. With the T, the A, and to a fair extent the '32, it was still conceivable to build pretty much the same thing using alternatives to pressed steel. The '33 was the first Ford which absolutely required pressed steel – or gl***fibre-reinforced plastic.

Ford certainly was a strange bird; half Wendell Berry and half François Duvalier. He was contradictory enough to be human. He wanted a farmer to be able to fix a Model T using baling wire, but not a Ford worker to be able make a Model T without using Ford's machinery. The desires are fundamentally incompatible.

 

That was Fordlandia in Brazil, referred to in an earlier post.

 

Thanks!....

 

There are a few different grades of cotton, has to do with how long the fibers are. And then the heaviness of the weave itself. You get one guess on the level of quality they use these days. They just fall apart.

 

sorry got off topic with the soy bean nonsense

 

If one caught fire, the fire department would show up, get really hungry and forget why they were in the first place.

 

Just a bit of informative education.

There is a huge difference between Industrial Hemp & Cannabis. HRP

 

Most of us just like Henry, learn from our mistakes and do better the next time.

 

Nothing wrong with 33/34's but Ol Henry just didn't foresee how significant the 32 Ford would become, both visually and historically.
Just imagine the possibilities of a multi year run of cars of the 1932 design.

 

...Maybe some, but not 'most'.

 

Not sure of this, But after googling a pic of Evangeline Cote ? I`ll ***ume ol` Hank was smoking something.

 

Minas the funny stuff I enjoyed this thread. HRP thanks for starting it.
Some of you HAMB guys never cease to amaze with your knowledge.