Take Me For a Ride In Your Car, Car..
Ron Candage and Rick Lindner kindly identified the car in the photo that I use on my banner. It’s a 1914 Ford touring car.
From Rick:
The 1912 had no front doors (but did have an option to attach removable ones), the 1913 Ford had brass trim on the side lamps, and the 1915 Ford had curved rear fenders. So this pretty much sets the year at 1914.
From Ron:
Ford made 100s of thousands of these in each of these years and they had factories in other countries which produced right hand drive cars. The car in your picture could have been produced at the Ford Motor Company – Columbus Assembly Plant which was located at 427 Cleveland Ave. This factory started in 1914 and closed in 1939. The components arrived here by train and the automobiles were assembled at the plant for delivery to local dealers.
I’d love to also identify the house in the photo, which seems to be at the address “338 [something].” And check out those beautiful columns in the next-door neighbor’s house!
(I’ve rotated the photo since putting it in the banner.)
[Image by C.C. Hollenback, courtesy of the Dawson family.]