Canada Day

Hi T friends, I am so pleased, as well as Heritage Park Coordinator Kelly, for the Dominion Day parade turnout from the Foothills Model T Ford Club.  It was so awesome having you all their to put so many smiles and to share great memories with everyone.

Cheers, Art Bent

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Heritage Centre in Cremona Tour

Despite a bit of rainy weather, a bunch of hardy Model T enthusiasts braved a variable weather, Alberta summer day, to have some fun.

Special thanks to Debra for the use of her Heritage Event Centre, providing an excellent lunch. and a great supply of ice cream. A variety of eight Model T’s were on display, and Harry gave a very informative talk on the Foothills T club, to everyone at the Centre.

Lots of public T interest, & many questions were addressed thoroughly by our president Harry LIlo. Most folks took lots of photos, and shared a few old time laughs.

Debra Solomons from the Heritage Centre did the slideshow on the club’s websites, newsletters & Tom provided a YouTube version of the Model T Ford, for part of the “tooling” presentations.

There was talk of an expanded annual version of the days events, with some member & public T story’s, to perhaps begin next year. Let’s do it again soon!

Rod Wallace

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Photo credit to Jack Porter

Photo Credit to Lynne Herzog

Getting a Museum Model T running Again

Hi, I am in Airdrie and I am looking getting a museum's 1918 model T running again. It has been running as recently as 2 years ago or less. It was parked as the waterpump (told it is aftermarket) is leaking badly around the packing/shaft. When they have tried to restart it they think something is wrong with one or more of the Magnetos on the firewall.

I told them I'd get it running for the canada Day parade but I broke my leg almost 3 months ago and it stopped me from getting any work done on this. Just no time to research or fiddle with it before the parade.

Is there anyone in the Calgary or Red Deer area that could give me a hand? Physically or even over the phone to get me moving on this car.

Thanks!

Tim 403-561-2632
timbay1@hotmail.com

GLOBAL WARNING

The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway.  Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change inclimate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. 

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.  Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.  Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable.

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I must apologize. I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 96 years ago.

This must all have been caused by the Model T Ford's emissions...or possibly from horse and cattle farts.

contributed by Ross Benedict