(2) Conger Street Clock Museum
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A featured attraction of
The Conger Street Clock Museum, is this
quarter scale 1912 Model T Ford Torpedo.
The Ford Display
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It took more than 14 years to build this Model T Ford working five, six and even seven days a week. Everything was built by hand and if a part did not look "PERFECT", it was discarded and another one made.
                                                                                       
This solid brass Model T Ford is
35 inches long and 18 inches high.
The wheels are 8 inches in diameter.
A Work of Art
The engine is a four cylinder with an updraft carburator.
The bore is 7/8 inches and the stroke is 1 inch.

There are 90 rods in the radiator
just as in the full size car.
Attention To Detail
The springs are made from individual leaves and flex just as on a full size car.

The parking lights and tail light work off of kerosine. The hand brake releases the transmission.
The seat is genuine leather, tucked and pleated, again just an in the original. The vibrator box on the dash is mitered, dovetailed, and contains four individual vibrator coils.

It is just like the full size Model T Ford
Just smaller!

Here the Ford is seen without its head as the engine is being built.

The Transmission

The project was planned to be just an engine and transmission. However, before the project was finished, it became a complete automobile.
                                       
The rear end (differential) was build to scale.

Anyway you look at it,
it is a beautiful Ol' Model T Ford.

The Wheels

The wood for the wheel spokes and the wooden steering wheel, came from an old school house desk that was made in 1912.

The car has been started on two different occasions. First; when the engine was first finished, before it was mounted on the chassis it was mounted on the bench an ran a few minutes to burn in the rings. Second; after the car was finished it was displayed at a minature engine show at the local convention center and on the hour, for a few hours it was started and allowed to run only for a few minutes each time.
Genuine leather seat!
The radiator has tubes in it just as in a real Model T. It has a water pump, and a fan blade. However, it did get rather warm, rather fast. It was great to demonstrate the motor running, but if you are not a mechanic, I would not even consider trying to start it. It is a show piece and a work of art. It is not a toy.
Attention to detail.
The parking lights and the tail light actually have little tanks and a whick adjuster and with kerosine they could light up.
The carbide generator
Hand made sparkplugs
Wooden wheels made from an old school desk
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The Conger Street Clock Tower

This clock tower mechanism was built circa 1750 and the
pendulum is 13 feet long. It takes almost 4 seconds
for the pendulum to complete one cycle.
Click on the 1949 Firetruck to visit the
Conger Street Clock Museum


Creative Clock
at
The Conger Street Clock Museum
of Eugene, Oregon
was the
Featured story of the
July/August 1990
Watch & Clock Review
Vol. 57, No. 7

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The Conger Street Clock Museum
730 Conger Street
Eugene, Oregon 97402

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Phone 541-344-6359     Fax 541-338-0869    
Creative Clock,   PO Box 2100,   Eugene, Oregon   97402