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Ford Meter Box was founded by Edwin Ford in Hartford City, Indiana in 1898. [1] He invented the meter box as a place to install water meters outside of homes that did not have basements. Ford's early experimentation found that meters could be installed in pits to protect them from freezing. His revolutionary invention was granted a patent on ...
Edwin H. Ford, founder of The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc., was born in Wabash, Indiana, on January 12, 1861, to Dr. James and America Ford. [1] Edwin was the youngest of six children. Shortly after Edwin's birth, his father, Dr. Ford, enlisted as an Army surgeon for the Union Army.
Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.The company was established by Morris Markin in 1922, created by a merger of the firms Commonwealth Motors and Markin Automobile Body, and was initially named the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company.
A standard Boyce MotoMeter on a 1913 Car-Nation. A standard Boyce MotoMeter fitted together with hood mascot. 1926 Packard Six model 226. The Boyce MotoMeter was patented in 1912, and was used in automobiles to show the temperature of the radiator.
The Ford LCF (Low Cab Forward [1]) is a medium-duty cab-over truck that was marketed by Ford Motor Company from 2006 to 2009. The first cab-over (COE) vehicle sold by Ford since the company sold the rights to the Ford Cargo design (in North America) to Freightliner in 1996, the LCF was developed as a Class 4/5 truck, competing in a market segment dominated by the Isuzu NPR (and its rebadged ...
American Restoration is an American reality television series airing on the History channel. Produced by Leftfield Pictures, the series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at Rick's Restorations, an antique restoration store, with its owner Rick Dale, his staff, and teenage son, as they restore various vintage items to their original condition.
From the arrival of the station wagon, the pickups were built with the wagon's straight rear panels, giving a wider, more square rear box. [34] In 1948 Crosley added bolt-on grille-bars and a chromed bull-nose to the front for the '48½ model year, [ 34 ] and introduced a new convertible wagon variant without doors, dubbed the " Sports Utility ."
Sly 2: Band of Thieves is a 2004 stealth action video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.It is the second installment of the Sly Cooper series and the sequel to Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.