Henry Ford had a simple idea. He wanted to build a car for the common man, a car "for the great multitude." Within a few short years, this simple idea had changed the world.
-William Clay Ford Jr.
(Casey,XII)
-William Clay Ford Jr.
(Casey,XII)
"I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces." -Henry Ford, My Life and Work (Casey, VII)
Pictured above: Highland Park, 1913. One day's output
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June 4, 1924. The 10,000,000th Ford car left the Highland Park factory of the Ford Motor Company, exactly 28 years after Henry Ford built his first car, the Quadricycle.
(Nevins, 387) Twelve thousand Highland Park employees in 1913. The photo was said to be the most expensive ever taken since all of the workers were paid while posing.
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