Manual Pages: Ford Model T 1908-1927

Technical Reference

Member-uploaded diagrams & documents for this generation. AI-classified; community-verified where badged.

Manual Pages

• Schrader No. 777 Inner-Tube Tire Valve Stem Diagram - Ford Model T Era Manual
  This is a scanned page from an early automotive reference manual (likely Dyke's Encyclopedia, based on companion scans) explaining the construction and installation of the Schrader inner-tube tire valve, as used on…
• Gray & Davis Early Generator Governor & Friction Clutch - Manual Page Figs 15-15B
  This scanned page from an early automotive reference manual explains the mechanical regulation method used by early-model Gray & Davis generators, among the first generators designed for automobile use. Unlike…
• Bendix Starter Drive Stuck in Mesh - Cleaning & Alignment Fix (Dyke's Manual)
  This scanned page (apparently from Dyke's automotive encyclopedia, per the filename) explains troubleshooting for a Bendix starter drive that sticks in mesh and fails to release after the engine starts, or meshes…
• Bendix Drive Starter Construction & Operation - Dyke's Manual Page (Fig. 4)
  This is a scanned page from an early automotive reference manual (apparently Dyke's Automobile Encyclopedia, based on the upload filename) explaining the construction and operation of the Bendix automatic gear shift…
• Ford Model T Roadster & Touring Top Working Drawings: Bow Dimensions
  This is page 155 of a vintage automotive reference book showing two dimensioned working drawings for Ford tops: a 'Working Drawing of Roadster Top' and a 'Working Drawing of Touring Top.' Each drawing includes a plan…
• Gargoyle Mobiloil grade list: Arctic Special (Light), Arctic (Medium), "A" (Heavy Medium), "AF" (Light Heavy), "BB" (Heavy), "B" (Extra Heavy).
• Early Ford manual page on engine oil, recommending Gargoyle Mobiloil "E" or White Star Extra Quality Oil and warning never to use graphite.
• Page 354 of Dyke's Instruction No. 33 describing mechanical charging-rate regulation on early Delco generators, including governor spring adjustment.
• Typed memoir page: Henry Ford offers the author his Dearborn Laboratory to drop the date issue, and a 1941 letter about the Michigan Theatre tablet.
• Typed memoir page 64: the author's corrections of the incorrect first Ford car date and Henry Ford's pressure to quiet him.
• Typed memoir page 63: Edison employee Jim Bishop's diary recorded Ford's first trial run on June 4, 1896; Ford later borrowed it.
• Typed memoir page 62: a witness's 1904 Selden suit testimony and Ford's later use of the disputed 1893 date for his first car.
• Ford of Canada Model T and TT motor numbers by month, Oct. 1924 to July 1927, plus early Model T paint colours for 1909-1919, prepared January 1987.
• Handwritten list of Canadian engine numbers prefixed by 'C' by date, from May 20, 1913 to the end of production on July 31, 1927.