Model T

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noun

an automobile with a 2.9-liter, 4-cylinder engine, produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1909 through 1927, considered to be the first motor vehicle successfully mass-produced on an assembly line.

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How to use Model T in a sentence

It was published in 1910, a couple years after Ford introduced the Model T.
The Magazine That Made—and Unmade—Politicians|Anthony Haden-Guest|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Except George Spahn had no such dream, nor was he a Midwestern Model T salesman.
Gay Talese on Charlie Manson’s Home on the Range|Gay Talese|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Model T, which sold tens of millions before it was retired in 1927, put America on wheels.
From the Model T to the Model S|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When it was introduced in 1908, the Ford Model T cost $825, and with each passing year, the price fell.
From the Model T to the Model S|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Workers there could turn raw materials into a completed Model T in 41 hours.
From the Model T to the Model S|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a barren, grassless yard, littered with odds and ends of farm machinery and an old model-T Ford touring car with no top.
Ticktock and Jim|Keith Robertson
H is a swinging frame, carrying the model T of a shoe last, and a roughed-out block U, partly converted into a shoe last.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.|Edward W. Byrn