[Bob Bidonde]

My experience with braking my Model A's is the same as nkaminar's, so I setup the service brakes with a front bias (15 degrees forward bias of operating levers). I read somewhere that Ford engineers biased the rear brakes to maintain steering control in a hard stop. However, since the 1940s most if not all cars & trucks have a bias to the front brakes to take advantage of the front nose down inertia of the vehicle during a hard stop. The nose down inertia adds a downward force to the front wheels.