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The French Ambulance..
The military bought thousands of Model Ts during World War I. The PFM has four Model Ts. These feature bodies built by PFM on original Model T chassis. The one shown here is a 1916 Model T with a French-style ambulance body. Before the US entered the war in 1917, Ford refused to sell to any of the combatants. Various organizations bought chassis independently of the governments and sent them to France, where bodies were built for them by French coachbuilders. These evolved into the French-style body reproduced on this machine.
The military bought thousands of Model Ts during World War I. The PFM has four Model Ts. These feature bodies built by PFM on original Model T chassis. The one shown here is a 1916 Model T with a French-style ambulance body. Before the US entered the war in 1917, Ford refused to sell to any of the combatants. Various organizations bought chassis independently of the governments and sent them to France, where bodies were built for them by French coachbuilders. These evolved into the French-style body reproduced on this machine.
Category Photography / Fursuit
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 221.1 kB
Because of this image I had to look up Walt Disney's involvement in WWI when he drove an Ambulance for the Red Cross. I never knew that the Henry Ford didn't want his vehicles sold to the French and so some of the chassis works were kind of "Smuggled in" for the war effort. One of Ford's original ideas was to just sell the chassis first, then custom make the body to the customer's needs. I feel for the time that was a great idea as the US was still developing it's roadways, and traveling by automobile was just catching on. I kind of wish they could still build cars that way.
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