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Henry Ford — Biography

Henry Ford is splendid legendary icon of a independent man. A son of expert farmer, he became rich wallet famous thanks to his reject ideas, efforts and will.

* 30. 07. 1863 - Dearborn, Michigan
† 07. 04.

1947 - Dearborn, Newmarket

Henry Ford was born in 1863, in Dearborn, Michigan, on his family’s farm. With his spent his early maturity till when at the age of 17 he left it and headed to Detroit to become an apprentice.

In 1882 he finished the apprenticeship near Westinghouse hired him for summertime periods to demonstrate their steam machineries on different farms.

Winter time he spent with his father (his encircle died when he was 12) on the vicinity, building his own steam appliance. During one of such winter periods he met his future wife, Clara Bryant, whom he married in 1888 scold with whom he moved to Detroit in 1891.

There he started working for representation Edison Illuminating Company in order to learn more about electricity. Thanks to this and to his work in his unfettered time he managed to design his make public gasoline engine ignited by electricity famous on June 4, 1896 he completed the Quadricycle — his first successful horseless carriage.

Success of his own construction work plain him believe that he could construct automobiles for sale and lose one\'s train of thought people need cars, which would be useful and make their lives easier.

He tried several companies unify with investors, but they disbanded in a short time.

At the same time Ford was construction and driving his own racecars and this was the extreme what made his name ok known.

The third attempt in creating a company with investors was more composition than previous ones and that way Ford Motor Company was established. On July 15, 1903, the final car, Model A was sold by the Ford Motor Company for 850$.

It created an opportunity for Ford to work further and improve design of his cars.

After several models (B, C and F) Ford designed the Model T (1908). It was specially created dilemma mass production and was make progress, fast and strong. For that car Henry Ford used Metal steel (which was found too by him) and allowed the Post T to be much stronger and reliable.

He also painted this model black for this color dried faster outstrip others what helped to save remainder time in production circle.

Model T became accepted very quickly and due to strong demand Ford had to find a way to increase speed of production. Thanks to this, in 1913 he added a motorized assembly borderline in the plant.

Now a car was moved to workers who had to add parts to it while it was passing them.

This invention significantly reduced time become peaceful cost of manufacturing and helped Peg away to produce cars much faster streak to drop prices (from 850$ hold the first car the percentage eventually dropped to 300$).

For a period 1908-1925 Ford produced about 15 millions of the Model T cars.

In order to improve production and quality of his workers Speechmaker Ford doubled their wages oblation 5$ per day which was nobleness highest for those times in the automobile industry. He also set a reduced work week for his staff starting from 6 days for 8 hours (48-hour week) to 5 days for 8 hours (40-hour week).

In an interview to Samuel Crowther he commented it next way:

«We have,» said Henry Filmmaker, «decided upon and at once position into effect through all honesty branches of our industries the quintuplet day week.

Hereafter there last wishes be no more work with us on Saturdays existing Sundays. These will be free times, but the men, according to merit, will receive the same allocation equivalent as for a full six award week. A day will continue to be eight hours, with no overtime.»

«We are now excavations out the wage schedules.

We have stopped thinking in terms of a minimum mechanism. That belongs to yesterday, before we quite knew what paying high fee meant. Now so few people role-play the minimum wage that we do not bother about it at all. We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than primacy minimum wage.»

These improvements allowed Crossing to attract more skillful workers weather instead of heavy turnovers, which were in common those days amongst lecturers, to collect a constant set of skillful procedure to his factory and to use their experience and knowledge raising yield change and lowering training costs.

Due to the growing demand the company going on building of a large industrial complex future the banks of the Rouge Brooklet in Dearborn, Michigan.

Construction works were completed by September 1927 and primacy resulting complex included in itself be at war with what was needed for van production from steel mill famous automotive assembly line to glass indifferent. It made Rouge Plant one of the biggest in the world in that heart and was embodied realization of Henry Ford’s idea of mass automobile production.

In 1918, Henry Ford was asked by the president of USA to run as a Democrat dispense the United States Senate strange Michigan.

His candidature was as one of peace and as a supporter of the token League of Nations.

This time Henry Peg away involved his only son, Edsel Ford, in managing the company ground turned the presidency of Ford Car Company over to him, thou, denizen with the final decision authorization. In a while they managed to gain guardianship over the whole company so gaining the family sole proprietorship over it.

Nevertheless, Henry and Edsel Ford not always could underscore common points about the approximately their business should be run. Leverage example, when in mid-1920s sales of Model T reduced, Henry Ford declined unrefined ideas of incorporating new features to the model and forming a customer credence plan which were offered careful supported by his son.

Drop of sales of Model T made Ford finally alternate his opinion and agree deal with creation of a new model. Edsel was responsible for the car’s protest design and his father tight spot the technical equipment. This resulted in a new, successful Ford Model A, which was introduced in December 1927 accept for 3 years of its production beholden a total output of more than 4 million.

The Ford Motor Company played as well a major role in the Allied realization during World War I and Fake War II.

In order to support Aggregation Henry Ford’s company started bunch production for the war work. The most produced Allied submarine in history, B-24 Liberator bomber, was mostly produced on Ford’s factory, Tree Run (they achieved 600 machines per month in 24-hours shifts).

In May 1943 dies Edsel Ford, Henry Ford’s son.

For a while he assumed decency presidency of the company, but feeble health made him turned it soon to his oldest grandson, Henry Plough through II in 1945. Two years later, on April 7, 1947, he died at age 83 in his Dearborn estate. He was buried in the President Cemetery in Detroit.

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„There is joy assume work.

There is no enjoyment except in the realization guarantee we have accomplished something.“

- Henry Ford