Other "builds" for the Model A/AA Ford engine...

[Steve Plucker]

Besides the Model A/AA Ford cars, Commercial Vehicles and Trucks offered for sale, what other items utilized the Model A Ford Engine in their special "builds"?



To name a few were the Smith Model A Air Compressor, Doodlebugs...



Any more that you can think of?



Thanks.



Pluck

[Mitch]

Marine applications
Gleaner combine

[Norm]

Ford Airplane?

[CarlG]

Electric generators

[pAAt]

Saw mills

[Rowdy]

Forney portable arc welders used for the military.
Avery and Thieman tractors.
Airplane tuggers and luggage haulers.
Also have seen a railroad adaption for Irish Mail Cars.

Rod

[Sunnybrook Farm]

I saw a carnival ride once that had a model A rear end and transmission but an electric motor had been patched into driving it. The rear end was under the ride that had little cars or some such thing on it and it spun the arms that pulled the cars around. I can't remember exactly how the whole thing functioned but it had seen much use. I suspect that originally they powered the thing with an A motor as it would have naturally connected to the transmission. It was just a small ride as they were back then.

[Tom Wesenberg]

In the 80's I used to drive a commercially built park train that was set up at the local threshing show to give kids rides. It had a Model A or B engine. I should have paid closer attention. It also had the Model A transmission. The kids liked it when I was driving, because when we went through the tunnel I gave it the gas.

[old31]

Maybe 15 or 20 years ago we had a ski area use an A engine to run the lifts.

[Mike V. Florida]

Ford Airplane?

pietenpol as designed, used the A engine

[pAAt]

Thanks for the info Mike! Great articles about Mr. Pietenpol and the fact he lived in Spring Valley, Minnesota. I bet they're the ones who invented the leak less water pump ?

[CarlG]

The current issue of "The Restorer" has a great article on the Pietenpol airplanes

[dmaxweb]

Pietenpol Video

https://youtu.be/HNdj4W4Vi2I

[Soapy]

I recently saw a photo of a railroad application with DT & I identification. That was the Detroit Toledo and Ironton railroad owned during the 1920's, by Ford.

[N97323]

A good friend of mine has a set of plans for a "Pete" and over the years has tried to get me interested in building one. But I have way to many projects in que to even think about that project. Maybe if I ever decide to retire I'll have time

[N97323]

His Grandfather actually built one back in the forties and flew it around Goodland

[CSPIDY]

Looks very similar to Clyde Cessna’s first production mono wing plane.
after he Walter Beech split up.

[Brad in Maryland]

How about these (from the 1932 Ford Power catalog, UK):
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....or these from the Rumanian Ford catalog (in German):
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Brad in Maryland

[Brad in Maryland]

Here is another list of Ford powered vehicles:
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Brad in Maryland

[ModelAl]

So I saw a tractor at a show that was made by Sears back in 1938 that utilized the model A engine. Was a Sears Economy Tractor 1938 .

[Brad in Maryland]

....or how about a shunting locomotive from Denmark for the hispanic cement industry:
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Brad in isolation in Maryland

[Chuck Sea/Tac]

Here’s a Zimbabwe, the 38 sears tractor using model A parts, and a weird AA powered bus from the Seattle area.

[Brad in Maryland]

.... if odd Ford Model A powered busses count, here is a Skagway bus:
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Brad in Maryland

[Brad in Maryland]

....or how about the Wismar Railbus from Germany:
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There are several of them that are still in service in northern Germany:
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....or this one with a '32 grill:
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....and if you are into model railroading, several toy train companies have made models of these rail busses in N, HO (Märkiln, Bemo) and G scale (LGB). Here is the one made by LGB for your G scale garden railway for example: wismar_class_t_41_rail_bus_wsound_dcc_426-24661_big.jpg

....and if you are interested in what it is like to ride on one of these, there is even a YouTube video, where you can even hear the Model A engine as it departs the station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwtZwOF-jqo

Brad in Maryland

[1930 Closed Cab PU]

Here’s a Zimbabwe, the 38 sears tractor using model A parts, and a weird AA powered bus from the Seattle area.

Tractor - Cool looking exhaust, straight header/no muffler? Routed like a vette side pipe. If so must have been loud.