OCT. 8 ISSUE ANSWERS: In the corner of the Clyde Craig Blacksmith Museum is the bottom of a Ford Model-T car. It includes the front axle, speedometer gear the steering apparatus, drive shaft, rear axle, gears and wheel mounts. OK, so this writer doesn’t know much about cars. The partial Ford was donated for the display. So why is it in the blacksmith museum? Years ago an eyewitness told the staff that cars were brought into the shop for repairs. Sure enough, there is a large oil stain right where the cars were worked on. Car parts such as engine valves, gaskets, spark plugs and many other small parts were located in the shop when it was moved to its present location. The museum has a large collection of old blacksmith magazines. The American Blacksmith Auto & Tractor Shop magazine for September 1921 and June 1922 shows the same blacksmith and anvil on the cover and within 10 months the same guy switches from horse shoes, to gears and crank shafts. Look closely at the two magazine covers above. The reason that this switch of activity is important to the Romeo Historical Society is that 100 percent of the Ford Model-T engines were cast in Romeo on West Lafayette Street between 1908 and 1910. Nowhere in the world but in Romeo were they cast. The Romeo Historical Society thinks that this is worth celebrating. The castings were shipped to the Dodge Bothers factory where the engine was finished and then up to the Piquette Factory where the cars were assembled. R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society Curator