Registration No: SV 7937
Chassis No: 7409337
MOT: Exempt

• Manchester manufactured example with coachwork from Heath & Wiltshire Ltd. of Farnham
• Subject to a comprehensive restoration across a fourteen year period
• A mere three owners during the previous 58 years
• Fitted with a desirable and scarce Landaulette body style

Launched in 1908, the 'T's' chassis and mechanical components were made from exceptionally durable, high-grade vanadium steel. The Ford also featured a compact 2890cc, side-valve, four-cylinder engine that pioneered the use of a detachable cylinder head. Mounted in a unit with the clutch and two-speed epicyclic gearbox assembly, it developed some 23hp at a leisurely 1,600rpm and 80lbft of torque. Top speed was limited to around 45mph depending upon bodywork, whilst brakes operated on both the transmission and rear wheels. With the introduction of a moving assembly line in 1913, Henry Ford famously turned his Model T into the world's first mass-made car. A year later, Model Ts represented 56% of all automobiles manufactured in the USA. However, it was not just the sheer volume of Model Ts rolling off the production line that motorised America, it was the inherent quality of the design.

One of the British manufactured examples, produced in the Manchester Trafford Park Ford factory, Chassis No: 7409337 rolled off the production line in June 1923. Supplied to coachbuilders Heath & Wiltshire Ltd. of Farnham, the Model T was equipped with, the now rare and desirable, Landaulette body style. The Ford’s history is subsequently unknown until 1964 when it was purchased by Coombs Service Station (a main Ford dealer during the 1960s), being retained by them for fourteen years. Acquired then by a former President of the Ford Model T Register in 1978, the vendor then obtained ‘SV 7937’ in 2003, equating to just three owners across the last 58-year period.

Used on the road for around three years by the vendor, the Ford was then taken off the road and supplied with a comprehensive restoration, with extensive frame and bodywork repairs, repainting, an interior retrim to original specification, overhauled wheels, a new radiator core, re-wiring and uprated Rocky Mountain brakes. Fitted with the 2890cc side-valve four-cylinder engine producing some 20hp, the ‘T’ is now presented in Black with the seats trimmed through the driver's cabin in Black, with the rear trimmed luxuriously in Cream cloth. Some ingenious but discrete upgrades were incorporated too, with electric power added to the driver/rear passenger divide; driver's compartment operated fuel cut-off and battery isolator switches; electric starter motor, built-in indicators, an under-dash cigarette light/power socket; and additional under-seat storage (front and rear).

Offered with a reproduction handbook, the RF60 duplicate logbook, previous test certificates with the oldest being a 1964 Ministry of Transport Test Certificate, a digital photograph selection of some of the restoration work completed and a current V5C. A desirable British manufactured example with appealing coachwork and worthy of close inspection.

For more information, please contact:
Paul Cheetham
paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk
07538 667452