On May 26, 1927, the last Model T rolled off the Ford production line, marking the end of a legendary fifteen million car run. Henry Ford and his son Edsel personally drove this final vehicle out of the factory. To prepare for its successor, the Model A, Ford chose to completely shut down his massive manufacturing plants for six entire months. This unprecedented pause threw tens of thousands of people out of work and temporarily froze the American automotive industry while the world waited to see what the reconfigured assembly lines would create next.
Image of a Model T Ford taken sometime between 1946-1960 via Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts, no known restrictions