GC24MWR Ford Model T (Traditional Cache) in Maine, United States created by Power Ranger: Mapachi

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Hidden : 3/31/2010

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Geocache Description:

Placed as part of the Central Maine Power Run by the Power Rangers.
Contains a log and a collectable path tag for the FTF.

Ford Model T

My maternal Grandfather Ivan Emerson owned a Model T. I have only a hand-full of pictures of him. Two of them have his Model T in the background. My Mom told me that when they went to church in the winter there would be large bottles of rusty water in the fouer of the church. It seems the few who drove their “Tin Lizzies” to church would drain their radiators into bottles and put them in the church to keep the water from freezing! My Grand father used to jack up the back of the car, take the tire off, attatch a belt to the wheel rim and onto this wheel that was attached to a saw blade. He would start the Model T and proceeded to saw wood! I think he had other attachments as well; like a pump that worked off that belt. All and all quite a farmer’s helper!
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Flivver, T Model Ford, or T) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that "put America on wheels"; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting, as well as the concept of paying the workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car, so they would provide a ready made market. The first production Model T was built on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. The Model T was the first automobile mass produced on assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts, marketed to the middle class.[citation needed] There were several cars produced or prototyped by Henry Ford from the founding of the company in 1903 until the Model T came along. Although he started with the Model A, there were not 19 production models (A through T); some were only prototypes. The production model immediately before the Model T was the Model S, an upgraded version of the company's largest success to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A and not the Model U. Company publicity said this was because the new car was such a departure from the old that Henry wanted to start all over again with the letter A. As it happens, the first Plymouth car (1928), built by competitor Chrysler Corporation, was named the Model U.
The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the twentieth century in an international poll. Henry Ford said of the vehicle:

"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)