Ford Model TT

When the first three units were produced in 1917, the Model TT was sold as a chassis with the buyer supplying a body. The price was $600. Starting in 1924, the truck was available with a factory-produced body. By 1926 the price had dropped to $325.{{sfn|Gunnell|2003|page=6}} In 1925, a hand-operated windshield wiper was added.{{sfn|Gunnell|2003|page=37}}

In his World Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles, author Pat Ware writes that: "During World War I, the Model T was ... standardized in the "light" class. The first truck, using a long-wheelbase chassis designated Model TT, was launched in 1917. Although Ford ... was a pacifist, he was ... happy to supply the US Army with more than 12,000 of these vehicles,..."{{cite book |last=Ware |first=Pat |title=The World Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles |year=2010 |publisher=Lorenz Books |isbn=978-0-7548-2052-9 |page=234}} and: "There was no civilian production of the Model Ts between 1917 and 1918."

Further on, Ware writes: "The Model T was widely used by the US and British armies during World War I as a staff car, ambulance, van and cargo truck, even as an artillery tractor, for which application the truck was fitted with twinned rear tyres." Many remained in service into the 1930s.

Below are the numbers of Model T trucks produced each year, not including Canadian production.{{cite web |url=http://www.mtfca.com/encyclo/fdprod.htm |title=Ford Production |publisher=Model T Ford Club of America |access-date=2015-03-25}}

File:1926 Ford Model TT truck engine at Campbell County Rockpile Museum in Gillette, Wyoming.jpg]]

The rear axle of the TT has a worm drive{{sfn|Gunnell|2003|page=6}} and crown wheel, unlike the Model T's crown wheel and pinion. The worm is located at the end of the drive shaft and above the crown wheel. The wheelbase of the Model TT is {{Convert|125|in|mm|0}}, compared to {{convert|100|in|mm|0}} for the Model T. It was often equipped with an accessory gearbox, such as the Ruckstell or Jumbo gearboxes, which allow the truck to have intermediate gears between low and high, useful for hill climbing.

The Model TT was very durable for the time, but slow when compared to other trucks.{{cite web

|url=http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/collection-1924-ford-model-t.php

|title=1924 Ford Model T Truck

|publisher=Texas Transportation Museum

|access-date=2015-03-25

|archive-date=2016-04-17

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417233459/http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/collection-1924-ford-model-t.php

|url-status=dead

}} With standard gearing, a speed of not more than {{Convert|15|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} was recommended, and with special gearing, a speed of not more than {{Convert|22|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}} was recommended.{{cite web

|url=http://www.mtfca.com/books/ford.htm#trk

|title=1923 Ford Dealers Data Book

|publisher=Model T Ford Club of America

|access-date=2015-03-25}} Standard worm gear ratio is 7.25:1, and special gearing gives a ratio of 5.17:1. Because of this, accessory catalogs offered items to help give the Model TT more power.{{cite book|last=Brooke|first=Lindsay|title=Ford Model T: the Car that Put the World on Wheels|year=2008|publisher=Motorbooks|isbn=978-0-7603-2728-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/fordmodeltcartha0000broo}}

It was replaced by the Ford Model AA truck in 1928.{{sfn|Gunnell|2003|pages=40–41}}

File:1919FordModelTT.jpg|1919 Ford Model TT on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.

File:Ford Shell Fuel Lkw IMG 20180417 192801.jpg |1926 Model TT tank truck

File:Ford TT ombyggd.jpg |Ford TT used as a bus in Skanör, Sweden in 1920

File:15 23 1089 ford museum.jpg |Blue Bird school bus built on a 1927 Ford Model TT

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{{cite book

|last=Gunnell

|first=John A.

|title=Standard Catalog of American Light-Duty Trucks

|year=2003

|publisher=Krause Publications

|location=Iola, Wisconsin

|isbn=0-87341-238-9}}

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