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The Ford Motor Company was officially incorporated in , when founder Henry Ford launched his venture in a converted factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. It was his third attempt at establishing an automotive business. At the time, the company could only produce a few cars a day.
Ford had its breakthrough in with the introduction of the Model T.
It embodied what Henry Ford wanted out of a car: efficiency, reliability, and a reasonable price. Due to high demand for the vehicle, Ford Motor Company commissioned a new factory in Highland Park, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn.
Brief history of ford motor company Ford Motor Company is an American automotive corporation that was founded in by Henry Ford and 11 associate investors. Emerging at the close of the American Industrial Revolution and fueled by the dynamic ethos of Gilded Age capitalism, Ford Motor Company revolutionized the automotive industry by mass-producing vehicles that were affordable to the masses and introducing the moving.It is here that Ford revolutionized the automobile industry by introducing his first assembly line mass-production model. Individual workers stayed in one place and performed the same task on vehicles that passed in front of them. This implementation gave Ford an edge over its competitors.
In , Ford began offering a $5 a day wage to its factory employees.
This vaulted many low-skilled workers into the middle class, allowing them to afford the products that they made, and employee turnover dropped dramatically. During the s, the Ford Motor Company purchased the Lincoln Motor Company and moved much of its production operations to the Ford Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan.
By the end of the decade, two out of three cars on the road were a Model T. The Ford Motor Company played a pivotal role in the Allied campaign during World War II. Using the same mass production techniques it introduced to the auto industry, Ford began churning out B Liberator aircraft at the rate of one per hour or approximately every month at Willow Run, helping to spawn Detroit’s nickname, the Arsenal of Democracy.
The s and s saw the introduction of some of Ford’s most iconic vehicles, including the Thunderbird in and the Mustang in This period also saw the introduction and unfortunate demise of the Edsel, a luxury car that never caught on with the public.
Brief history of ford motor company customer service Since , Ford Motor Company has put the world on wheels. From the moving assembly line and the $5 workday, to soy foam seats and aluminum truck bodies, Ford has a long heritage of progress. Learn more about the automobiles, innovations and manufacturing that have made the blue oval known around the world.Throughout the next several decades, Ford Motor Company continued to expand, opening operations in Asia, founding the Ford Motor Credit Company and acquiring other brands, including Mazda and Land Rover. In Ford alone, of the big three American automakers, avoided bankruptcy and a government bailout. Ford remains one of the largest car producers in the world.
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