Henry Ford has appeared in this blog already, due to his incredible disregard for history in his famous quote. Anyone who was thinking that he might be right should perhaps take his total disregard for the alphabet into account before deciding for certain - today, in 1927, after 15,007, 003 models made, the last Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line. What was it replaced by? The Model A.
Go, as Mr Ford's compatriots tend to say in these circumstances, figure.
In other news ...
In 1902, the generals commanding the Boers in South Africa surrendered to the British on this day. Kitchener, one of the least deserving 'heroes' in British military history, broke the nation by tactics such as herding the women and children into concentration camps where an estimated 20,000 - one in three of all those interned - died of malnutrition and disease. The peace treaty provided for the eventual self rule for the Boer republic, with the issue of votes for the native nations to be decided upon at a later date. Just how much later, no one knew at the time and probably a good thing too.
