To reduce costs and increase production of his most successful automobile — the Model T — Henry Ford borrowed a tactic from the meatpacking industry and implemented the assembly line in his ...
Each man of those who struggled before the factory gates this morning ... there would be no increase in the price of the Ford product. Henry Ford today refused to add his first simple statement ...
The automobile maker did not experience success until midway through his life and failed to keep that success going, but ...
In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor ... sturdy car, offering no factory options -- not even a choice of color. The Model T, first produced in 1908, kept the same design ...
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in his memoirs reiterated the idea that it had long been Henry Ford’s ambition to build a factory in Cork. He wrote that Ford ‘was anxious to ...
One hundred years after Henry Ford reshaped the automotive industry with the assembly line, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing much the same for electric cars. Musk is a once-in-a-generation figure ...