Ford bottom motor vehicle seat belt anchorage device attached by cable to a belt buckle clip 1955-1965
Ford BB 1933 with six-wheel extension and van body, mobile library ex-Erith Urban District Council Ford BB 1933 with six-wheel extension and van body 1933
Ford 24 hp Model A motor car chassis, 1931, sectioned, with motor generator and connections, donated by Henry Ford in 1931. Ford prided itself on making cars for lay men, declaring ‘The Ford is the simplest car made’ and efficient mass production also made them affordable. It was these ideals that made the Ford Model T extremely popular when it was introduced in 1908. However production of the greatly anticipated Model A started in 1927 only to be followed by the great depression in 1929. Consequently the Model A became too expensive to tax and run in England. In the first 3 months of production only 5 were sold and business for Ford only picked up when a smaller car, the Model Y, was released. Model 'A' Motor Car Chassis 1931
Ford Popular car chassis, 1936. The Ford motor groups first small car was the Model "Y" and this was introduced in 1932. The model would later become known as the Popular and was intended to sell at a low price. The two door model sold for £100 making it the only new build motor car in the UK sold for that price. Over 157,000 were sold. Ford Popular car chassis 1936
Ford Zephyr car chassis, 1956, sectioned. In 1951 Ford Motor Company introduced their first post-war models, the 1.5 litre Consul and the 2.3 litre Zephyr. The Zephyr Six was a six-cylinder saloon, bigger than the four-cylinder Ford Consul, and in fact the largest Ford motor car seen in Britain. The Zephyr introduced the 3-box shape to British motoring and featured all-steel integral construction, independent front suspension and new overhead-valve power units. In 1955 an even larger version of the Zephyr, the luxury Zephyr Zodiac, was released. This continued to be the largest passenger car in the British Ford range until the 1971 Ford Consul and Granada were put into production. This is an example of the chassis of the Zephyr Six from the year the Zephyr Zodiac went into production. Sectioned 'Zephyr Six' motor car chassis 1956
Ford model T motor car chassis with tyres and axle stands, sectioned Ford 'Model T' Motor Car Chassis