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May 10, 2011
The last Model T built by Ford Motor Company and a star of the company’s UK-based heritage collection, is heading to Scotland to help celebrate the Ford of Britain Centennial. Britain’s highest mountain will play host to the Ben Nevis Challenge Tour from 16 – 21 May. Organised by the Model T Register the event celebrates the 100th anniversary of a Ford Model T scaling the 4,406ft peak. In 1911 Henry Alexander, a Ford agent based in Edinburgh, drove to the top of Ben Nevis to prove the ruggedness of the Ford Model T. The ascent took five days with the route leading over boulders, through snow-drifts and over perilous loose sand paths. At the top of Ben Nevis the Model T was met by the world’s press before taking less than three hours to descend the mountain, traversing gradients steeper than 1 in 3.

The last Model T built by Ford Motor Company and a star of the company’s UK-based heritage collection, is heading to Scotland to help celebrate the Ford of Britain Centennial.

Britain’s highest mountain will play host to the Ben Nevis Challenge Tour from 16 – 21 May. Organised by the Model T Register the event celebrates the 100th anniversary of a Ford Model T scaling the 4,406ft peak.

In 1911 Henry Alexander, a Ford agent based in Edinburgh, drove to the top of Ben Nevis to prove the ruggedness of the Ford Model T. The ascent took five days with the route leading over boulders, through snow-drifts and over perilous loose sand paths. At the top of Ben Nevis the Model T was met by the world’s press before taking less than three hours to descend the mountain, traversing gradients steeper than 1 in 3.

 

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