True or False?

[MochetVelo]

I heard a few facts in a museum tour recently, and wonder if they are actual facts:

1) In making the Model T, Ford purchased exclusive rights to use vanadium steel in the U.S., and no other car maker could use this alloy for 16 years.

2) The Ford T was able to use a removable cylinder head because their engines were cast from vanadium steel.

3) The Sears motor buggy was sold as a kit and require assembly by the purchaser.

Phil

[Steve Braverman]

Number 3 is false. The Sears was shipped in a crate, but the owner only had to attach the wheels and fenders.

[jscheib]

So it looks like the question on the Sears motor buggy is true or false depending on what your defination of "kit with final asembly" is?

John

[MochetVelo]

I was thinking "kit" like the 1909 Metz: 24 shipments of parts followed by a can of paint and a brush!

Phil