Ford was advertising its charcoal by 1950.
Found a newsletter that mentions someone wanting to know what color to paint a 1939 Ford charcoal grill.
link to the original PDF
Also found that Exhibitor Magazine had an article on this subject back in August. I don’t feel like going through the (free) registration process in order to read it, though.
“You can paint it any color, so long as it’s black.” –Henry Ford
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Jeff. As usualy, you are sterling with searching for stuff. Thanks a lot.
I registered for that newsletter, and the story was brief. It asserted that Ford started producing charcoal in 1921.
The (1939) charcoal grill thing was great. I may call the guy. I guess I’m too much of a skeptic. Didn’t realize that people were grilling out in 1939. At least not to the extent that there would be a market for grills and briquettes.
You’re quite welcome.
Ford was clearly into camping, as evidenced by this pic found elsewhere on don’s link and this RV made long before “RV” ever entered the lexicon.