The Ford Motor Company
This is the story of the Ford Motor company. I am going to
take you on a journey through time to start us off on
July 30, 1863 in Dearborn Michigan. That is the date of
the birth of one of the most well known men of all time,
Henry Ford.
When Henry was sixteen he walked to detroit and
apprenticed himself to a mechanic for two dollars and
fifty cents a week but his boarding cost three so he
worked nights for a watchmaker to make ends meet. Later in
1884 Henry took of a little farm his father gave him. He
got married and seemed settled down but after two years
Henry moved back to Detroit and worked as a night engineer
for the Detroit Edison Company.
In 1899 Ford helped organize the Detroit Automobile Company. Ford
wanted to build cars that didn't cost a lot so many people could afford them but
Ford's partner's disagreed so Ford sold out and moved on.
Portrait of Henry Ford (ca. 1919)
English: Ford Motor Company Headquarters, Dearborn...
1896 Ford Quadricycle photographed at The Henry Fo...In 1903 Ford
developed the Ford Motor Company with only twenty eight thousand dollars. That
money came from eleven stockholders. Ford converted a small Detroit Wagon
Factory into an automotive plant and was staffed with ten people.
The first car Ford produced was the model A. Ford sold seventeen hundred
model A's in the first fifteen months of production. Beetween 1903 and 1908 Ford
and his engineers used the first nineteen letters of the alphabet to name their
masterpieces but some were experimental and never made the line. In 1908 Ford
created the Model T, the car was a drastic improvement over all the previous cars
and became an instant success. By 1927 Ford had sold more than fifteen million
model T's.
On May 31, 1927 All Ford plant's shut down...