Old Ford stuff and OSHA?

JDEM

Well-known Member
My wife is going through some of her grandfather's stuff. He died a few years ago. At age 100, he was still working as a volunteer at the Henry Ford Museum as a machinist. He came here from Scotland and Canada and was a machinist his whole adult life. He worked for Ford Motor Co. Also had his own tool & die company. At age 100, he was working at the Armington and Simms machine shop at the Henry Ford Museum. OSHA came in and made things tough to do the "old school way." He had this cartoon from 1988 making fun of OSHA.
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Bet he never thought his personal info would be available circling the globe, available to anyone interested. :) or that such a thing could ever be possible!

Neat stuff, thanks for sharing.

Paul
 
That cartoon with the horse is really old. Would take ages to find my copy but I would bet it easily goes back to the 60s. I have some house construction ones that go back to the 30s. They havent changed! They have much older equipment but it is all the same government hassel. Things like this are just fun to dig through and look at. Thanks
 

I've seen the OSHA cowboy before. How true!

The invoice for the Ford is really neat. Hard to believe that a new car could be bought that cheap!
 
Yes but my horse one if i am correct was for the safety conscious cowboy or some other silly thing. Not OSHA.
 
(quoted from post at 10:26:42 12/16/17) Yes but my horse one if i am correct was for the safety conscious cowboy or some other silly thing. Not OSHA.

It does say a cowboy as seen by OSHA at the bottom.

Interesting the car seems to be ordered in December 29 and delivered in August 28. Suppose it sat on the lot over a year?
 
Thanks for the photos. I have the sister to that 29 Model A Ford sitting out in my garage. I do not drive it much but I believe it still could be driven across the country. The $495 seems cheap by today's standards but it was a lot of money back in 1930 after the stock market crash.

That old purchase order is a gem and should be preserved for future generations to see how much things have changed and yet how much alike things are today.
 

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