Show concerning 9 old fords ford S the manufacture of replacement parts for the millions of model T ford cars still in daily use continues to demand nearly one third the production capacity of ford plants in detroit ford officials estimate from reports of dealers all over the county that there are still approximately eight millions of the model T cars in constant use in the united states some of these cars are many years old every now and then there are reports of ford cars of the old oid braser bound radiator types ol of twelve or f fourteen years ago still running after more than a hundred thousand miles mile of service the newest of the model T fords Is now nearly a year old for the production ro d uc care of assembled model T cars was va suspended in may 1927 to make way for tho the ne new w model A this suspension of assembled model T cars did not affect the production schedule of model T replacement parts however throughout the past year th the manufacture of model T parts continued to occupy about one third the production capacity of the ford plants A few days ago newspaper correspondents here nored henry ford how long lie he expected to continue making parts for model T cars until the last model T is off the roads mr ford replied promptly then he added that may be ten years but we do not intend to allow any ford car ever to become obsolete as long as it can be made useful with ith reasonable replacements ants 11 ford engineers from tests arid and observations made over a long period of years have estimated that the average useful life ot of a model T ford car Is about seven years |