Soybean seat

Kirk-NJ · Aug 29, 2022

Friend is interested in selling his soybean seat What is the Value?

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Abbby · Aug 29, 2022

What makes it a soybean seat? Thought they were all like this.

John in Mich · Aug 29, 2022

Shape is the same, material is different. Ford did early experiments with developing plastics.

Hobo,NC · Aug 29, 2022

Just another seat to me... Looks like I am out of the running for it : )

Tim PloughNman Daley RIP · Aug 30, 2022

HiYa Kirk-

Maybe 10-20 years ago I would have an interest but now, only if it was cheap, shipping included. Email me with price and location. The plastic seat was an option, as p/n 9N-400-B, for the first year - 1939-1940. Lack of sales made it obsolete after '41. Henry Ford had a plastic lab with George Washington Carver heading up experiments to develop a plastic to make parts with. Carver found the soybean to be the most suitable for the polymer base. Ford had a factory built, had fields all over the country growing soybeans, and had a car, parts, and even some food made from soybeans. FWIW & FYI: Did you know it was Henry Ford who developed the dessert topping Presto-Whip? Yep, made from soybeans. Still made today, not by FORD, but ingredients are all artificial and no longer soybean based.

Tim Daley(MI)

warbaby · Aug 30, 2022

No ventilation holes? No wonder it failed. Nothing worse than crack-sweat mixed with soybean oil, although I guess it was a novel way to absorb your oxidized lipids!

Duner Wi · Aug 30, 2022

First I knew about tractor seat.
Henry stress testing trunk lid on 41 Ford.

Duner Wi · Aug 30, 2022

Might be a photo, might not.

warbaby · Aug 30, 2022

Not to get off topic, but doesnt 2020's James Taylor looks a lot like 1940's Henry Ford?

Duner Wi · Aug 30, 2022

Pretty Close!

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