CAN YOU GUESS………….

WHO IS THIS PERSON ?

LOGO OF FORD

Born on July 30, 1863 in greenfield township, Dearborn, Michingan, U.S

Loved tinkering with things as kid.

At an early age he showed interest in mechanical things

At 12, he spent a lot of time in a machine shop, which he had equipped himself. By 15, he had built his first internal combustion engine.In 1879 he left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, first with James F. Flower & Bros.

And later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co. After completion of his apprenticeship, Ford got a job with the Westinghouse company working on gasoline engines. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in 1888 Ford supported himself by running a sawmill.

In 1891 Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company and became chief engineer in 1893.

Now he had enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments

In 1896 he made his first vehicle “Quadricycle” this was the first automobile he ever drove.Left Edison Illuminating and with some investors formed Detroit Automobile Company.

The Detroit Automobile Company, however, went bankrupt soon afterward because Ford continued to improve the design instead of selling cars.

Ford raced his vehicles against those of other manufacturers to show the superiority of his designs.

With the interest in his race cars, he formed a second company, the Henry Ford Company.

During this period, he personally drove his Quadricycle to victory in a race against Alexander Winton, a well-known driver and the heavy favorite on October 10, 1901. Ford was forced out of the company by the investors, including Henry M. Leland in 1902, and the company was reorganized as Cadillac.

Henry Ford, with eleven other investors and $28,000 in capital, incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903. In a newly-designed car.The Model T

In 1908, the Ford company released the Model T. From 1909 to 1913

The Model T

In 1908, the Ford company released the Model T. From 1909 to 1913.Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line. He did, however, change the world by using an assembly line technique to produce cars which could be afforded by everyone. From 1909 to 1927, the Ford Motor Company built more than 15 million Model T cars.

Henry Ford had very specific thoughts on relations with his employees. They were expected to work an eight-hour day, and in 1913 were paid a handsome $5 per day. The pay rate increased to $6 per day at the peak of Model T production in 1918; such a sum for laborers was, at the time, almost unheard-of. Ford also offered his employees an innovative profit-sharing plan.

Ford was a complex man. For announcing that he would pay his workers $5 a day (nearly twice the prevailing rate), he was hailed as a great humanitarian and branded a mad socialist. He favored an almost monarchist business philosophy, with himself in the role of benevelentbut totally sovereign king.

Ford was against labourunions in his plants. To forestall union activity, he hired Harry Bennett.The most famous incident, in 1937, was a bloody brawl between company security men and organizers that became known as The Battle of the Overpass.

Henry Ford, with his son Edsel, founded the Ford Foundation in 1936 as a local philanthropy in the state of Michigan with a broad charter to promote human welfare. The Foundation has grown immensely and by 1950 had become national and international in scope.

The foundation no longer has any association with the Ford Motor Company, nor with the family or descendants of Henry Ford.

Henry Ford survived a stroke in 1938 when he turned over the business to his son Edsel, but when his son died in 1943 Henry took over once again. 1945 saw him retire again with health problems, and handing over presidency to his grandson Henry Ford II. Henry died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 in Fair Lane, and was buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." - 1916