Heaven forbid there be a traffic jam in Ripon of five cars. Oh, for the good old days (that I never knew) when less than a dozen cars in a town was the topic of choice rather than the current gas prices. Many connect the history of cars with Ford's assembly line which he put to work in the 1910s. This idea came from an assembly line model attributed to starting in the Portsmouth Block Mills over 100 years earlier. Although the first steam-powered automobile may be from the 1600s, invented by a Flemish Jesuit in China, Ford was the man who boosted the car industry into what we know today and he quickly established his techniques not only in America but in Europe as well, creating Ford France, Ford Britain, Ford Denmark and finally Ford Germany.
The Model T Ford and Model T Ford truck have had a bit of a make-over to turn them into ambulances for season two. The props department contacted the kind people at Triggol's Vintage Cars for the use of their vehicles.
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| A lovely picture from Mail Online of the modern day car sneaking onto the set. |
