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Henry Ford produced eight versions of cars before the Model T of 1908, with which his name became synonymous; these were the models A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. They were not remarkable automobiles, but public response to the less expensive ones (the firm made some fairly costly cars at first) indicated the soundness of Ford’s idea—to turn the automobile from a luxury and a plaything into a necessity by making it cheap, versatile, and easy to maintain. By the mid-1920s the American automobile had won the revolution Ford had begun. The country was on wheels, and ...(100 of 15677 words)