Category: Model T Memories

Where is this T?

Model T Ford – IK 1979 Bishop Browne was the owner of a Ford Model T with a specialised body more likely built by O’Gorman Bros. Ltd of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Do you know of the whereabouts of this car? Please contact our Secretary on...

Old Irish Photographs

We would be very interested in seeing any old Model T photographs. Please contact our Secretary, if you have any photographs you would like to share or add to this section. It would be useful if you can supply any information about the car featured...

1915 Sales Brochure

The 1915 Ford Sales Brochure shows the line up of the cars available in that year which includes a Touring Car, Couplet and Town Car. We hope that the brochure images may be of interest to our visitors. Follow the links under the photographs for...

Ford – The Cork Connection

A bit of Cork history… so that you may be aware! When Henry Ford’s Irish links are discussed, most people know of his ancestry being traced to Ballinascarthy where today a stainless steel replica of a 1909 T stands by the roadside. What many people...

Ford Products 1924

A self-contained industry produces Ford Cars, Trucks and Fordson Tractors.  It is the Ford industry whose resources go back to the standing timber and the unmined ore. They include Ford-owned coal mines, blast furnaces, glass factories, huge manufacturing units, assembly plants, and an organisation of...

Henry Ford

In 1847 at the height of the great famine in Ireland, a man left Ballinascarthy, near Bandon in County Cork in search of a better life for himself, his wife and family for United States of America. It was a decision which would have a...

IZ105 – Oldest Irish Car

Members might be interested in a press cutting from the library of The Irish Model T Ford Club. The T bearing the registration number IZ-105 was first registered in County Mayo, Ireland and featured on the occasion of the sale of a Touring Car by...

Vintage Memories

We have reproduced Vintage Memories, a very interesting article written a few years ago and published in The Cork Examiner, by our Senior Honorary Member James Twohig. Hope you enjoy it. Vintage Memories by James Twohig My earliest motoring memory is from 1928 when local...

T Thoughts – John O’Neill

Hi members, I hope all is well with you in these strange times we are all living through. Our Secretary mentioned in his recent email our club is looking for things to publish on the website. As I have plenty of unplanned time on my...