Tagged: Irish Model T Ford Club

Spring Run Nenagh April 2013

The first Rally of the Model T Ford Club 2013 Season took place on Sunday 14th April 2013. The Rally was based this year in Nenagh, Co Tipperary and hosted by our Adare members. David and Marian Cuddy ably assisted by family members including grandson...

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...

Arise From The Ashes

John Vahey describes how he rebuilt his 1910 T Tourabout following an unfortunate incident at the Adare Spring Run during 2012. Arise from the Ashes by John Vahey Over the last few decades I have enjoyed restoring and using cars as diverse as a 1904...

Dorset Steam Fair

Many of you that know me will know of my enthusiasm for the Great Dorset Steam Fair. I have been going to steam and vintage rallies for longer than I can remember. The Innishannon, formerly Upton Steam Rally, is one of the highlights for many...

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...

Calendar Year Production

The following table shows engine serial numbers for the Ford Model T, gleaned from production records at the Ford Motor Company. These numbers represent calendar year production, not model year. 1908 1-309 1909 310-14161 1910 14162-34900 1911 34901-88900 1912 88901-183563 1913 183564-408347 1914 408348-656063 1915...

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...