OT: Friday Time Waster

[Thomas Rogers]

Spend some time on this site, especially it's "Wacky Uses" and "Weird Facts" areas...

 

[TomT]

Cool. Who would have known our Tracs and Kingsford Charcoal are related.

Ford Charcoal was renamed Kingsford Charcoal Briquets after E.G. Kingsford, the relative who helped Henry Ford select the site for his charcoal plant.



In 1921 Henry Ford wanted to find a use for the growing piles of wood scraps from the production of his Model Ts. Ford learned of a process for turning the wood scraps into charcoal briquets, and one of his relatives, E.G. Kingsford, helped select the site for Ford's charcoal plant.



The company town which sprang up around the site was named in Kingsford's honor, and later, Ford Charcoal was renamed the Kingsford Product Company in 1950.

 

[EddieS'04]

I dont remember which model. One of the early fords came with a castiron grill and tools as an option...

 

[Travis Munday]

Possibly the Model T as well. I've got a set of Model T wrenches, around 5 different sizes, some leather-bound screwdrivers and a Model T jack and the wrenches at least appear to be cast iron.