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I have copies of possibly 500 different speaches given by W. J. Cameron on Ford Sunday Evening Hour programs in the 1930s. I believe most of these broadcasts were on CBS.
One particular talk was titled "How Much a Pound?", November 15, 1936. I could not find an Internet site to directly access a copy. Cameron was probably Henry Ford's primary philosophical spokesman. On various occasions he gave talks to us at our morning Chapel service.
Excerpts from the above talk --- in 1925 a car cost $.41/#, then in 1937 $0.20/# for a low cost car, beefsteak about $0.30/#, a refrigerator $0.40/#, a piano $0.87/#, a good radio $1.65/# (note that radios were electrical products that were primarily hand assembled at that time, whereas automotive manufacture was highly automated), and a suit of clothes $7.50/#.
In 1906 a car costing $15,000 was possibly 1000# heavier than a Ford in 1936 at $480 with a V-8 engine, and the 1906 car was not comparable in quality or performance. By 1940 a standard Ford had gone up to about $800.
The use of cost per pound is a very interesting way to value products. Today meat, beef, is not much less than $5/# and can easily be upwards of $20/#. A GE RR relay is about $40*3.4 = $136/#, and Fluke test leads $20*5.9 = $118/#. Do your own calculation on today's cars. I am using ballpark memory for GE and Fluke prices. Gold is around $17,000/#.
In doing the Internet search I found the following links and because I don't want to try to find them again they are here, and I will comment later.
http://www.461st.org/B-24_Manual/PDFs/Part 4.pdf just fuses, no breakers.
https://books.google.com/books?id=N... cameron 1936 for sunday evening hour&f=false This is a long book. In a sense this is background for solving ignition system problems that caused early B-24s to have engine failure at high altidude and crash.
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I have copies of possibly 500 different speaches given by W. J. Cameron on Ford Sunday Evening Hour programs in the 1930s. I believe most of these broadcasts were on CBS.
One particular talk was titled "How Much a Pound?", November 15, 1936. I could not find an Internet site to directly access a copy. Cameron was probably Henry Ford's primary philosophical spokesman. On various occasions he gave talks to us at our morning Chapel service.
Excerpts from the above talk --- in 1925 a car cost $.41/#, then in 1937 $0.20/# for a low cost car, beefsteak about $0.30/#, a refrigerator $0.40/#, a piano $0.87/#, a good radio $1.65/# (note that radios were electrical products that were primarily hand assembled at that time, whereas automotive manufacture was highly automated), and a suit of clothes $7.50/#.
In 1906 a car costing $15,000 was possibly 1000# heavier than a Ford in 1936 at $480 with a V-8 engine, and the 1906 car was not comparable in quality or performance. By 1940 a standard Ford had gone up to about $800.
The use of cost per pound is a very interesting way to value products. Today meat, beef, is not much less than $5/# and can easily be upwards of $20/#. A GE RR relay is about $40*3.4 = $136/#, and Fluke test leads $20*5.9 = $118/#. Do your own calculation on today's cars. I am using ballpark memory for GE and Fluke prices. Gold is around $17,000/#.
In doing the Internet search I found the following links and because I don't want to try to find them again they are here, and I will comment later.
http://www.461st.org/B-24_Manual/PDFs/Part 4.pdf just fuses, no breakers.
https://books.google.com/books?id=N... cameron 1936 for sunday evening hour&f=false This is a long book. In a sense this is background for solving ignition system problems that caused early B-24s to have engine failure at high altidude and crash.
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