December 2 holiday party by November 20 so that we can get a final count to the Marlborough Country Club. This year's event promises to be a fun time and a great way to end the year by celebrating the holiday season together. Send your checks($25 each for member and significant other, $35each for guests) made out to Minuteman Model A Ford Club to Harold Samuels, 85 Concord Road, Bedford, MA 01730. If you have any questions call at 781-275-2814, or e-mail to robynsamuels@yahoo.com.Harold Samuels

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Always Something To Fix

We will try to provide some helpful information on the restorations and repairs . Our members contributions are welcomed, so be sure to email us. Learn more

Love Those Collectibles

There were so many original and aftermarket accessories, advertising, "do-dads" and more, that we would like to share some of our favorites with everyone. Learn more

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Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell.

The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as coming "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma." Demand was sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal. The result was the famous Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off.

At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Phillip Morris. The signs were removed at that time. The brand decreased in visibility and eventually became the property of the American Safety Razor Company.

In 1997, the American Safety Razor Company reintroduced the Burma-Shave brand, including a nostalgic shaving soap and brush kit. In fact, the original Burma-Shave was a brushless shaving cream, and Burma-Shave's own roadside signs frequently ridiculed "Grandpa's old-fashioned shaving brush."

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Doing anything on Wednesday morning? No. Well then, you are invited to join the group for breakfast at the Big Apple Deli, 331 Boston Post Road (RT 20) in Marlborough, MA.

The food is good and there is plenty of Model A talk. We arrive about 8:00 AM and stay until when-ever.

ON THIS DAY: November 26, 1927
FORD MODEL A AUTOMOBILE ANNOUNCED
The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan announced the introduction of the Model A, the first new Ford automobile to enter the market since the Ford Model T was first introduced in 1908. The hugely successful Ford Model T

revolutionized the automobile industry, and over 15,000,000 million units of the "Tin Lizzie" were sold in its 19 years of automotive production and assembly. By 1927, the popularity of the outdated Model T was rapidly waning. Improved, but basically unchanged for its two-decade reign, it was losing ground to the more stylish and powerful motor cars offered by Ford Motor Company's competitors.

In May of 1927, Ford automobile production plants across the country closed, as the company began an intensive development of the more refined and modern Model A automobile. The vastly improved Ford Model A had elegant Lincoln automobile-like styling on a smaller scale, and used a capable 200.5-cubic-inch four-cylinder engine that produced 40 horsepower (hp). With prices starting at $460, nearly 5,000,000 Ford Model A automobiles, in several body styles and a variety of colors, rolled onto America's highways over a four-year period until production ended in early 1932.

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