On July 20th, 1903 the Ford Motor Company shipped its first vehicle, the Ford Model A, a little over a month after the company was founded.
Three days later the first Ford Model A was owned by a dentist in Chicago named Ernest Pfennig.
Image: Henry Ford in 1933, thirty years after his first Model A was shipped, sitting in his then vintage Ford Model A next to a very vintage horse and carriage
Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 July 1944" (National Archives)