An interesting piece of Ford's History

[CobraJoe]

FROM HEMMINGS:

Could Ford have been the first carmaker (okay, truck maker) to mass produce gas turbines for the road?



https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/05/20/could-ford-have-been-the-first-carmaker-okay-truck-maker-to-mass-produce-gas-turbines-for-the-road?refer=news&utm_source=edaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-05-20

[FiveSevenLiter]

Kenworth also ran them, I was at a gas station in Cache Creek, British Columbia in the mid-70s and there was a K100 cabover and I saw the huge exhaust stacks and went and looked under the cab and one the side of the turbine it said Turbine by Ford.  They also played with them on the Detroit transit buses.  Kenworth ran them delivering parts between Seattle and their factory in St. Therese Quebec.  When the guy fired it up and pulled up the hill it sounded like a jet taking off, the guy was shifting it but the rpm stayed the same, weird visual sensation.

[FiveSevenLiter]

Big Red.