Henry Ford’s new car, the Model A is driven off the assembly line by his son Edsel. We also see the 15-millionth Model T and Ford driving his first car, the quadricycle. 1927
Henry Ford
Ford Model A Introduced in 1927 – King Rose Archives @YouTube
Video showing Henry and Edsel with the “New Ford Car”
It sure looks like Ford had an experimental gas-turbine Model T running around in the Twenties – Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
Don’t try to wipe your screen to clear up that blurry image above: It’s a screen-capture from a 50-plus-year-old promotional video uploaded to YouTube at a low resolution setting, so that’s about as sharp as it gets. It’s also about… Read More ›
Movie About The Legacy Of Henry Ford Is In The Works – Shane McGlaun @FordAuthority
The legacy that Henry Ford left behind for not only his namesake company but the automotive industry, in general, can’t be denied. A new movie has received the green light after landing a grant from a Detroit nonprofit that supports… Read More ›
Mansions and Homes of Detroit’s Richest Residents
Video from eddiebatmv of the homes of the richest of the Detroit residents most of which are those of the automotive barons of the 1920’s and 1930’s, including the Ford, Dodge and Fisher families
A Fordson for fun: Scale tractor built for Henry Ford’s grandchildren heads to auction – Kurt Ernst @Hemmings
Much like his Model T automobile, Henry Ford’s affordable tractors brought mechanization to the masses, and the Fordson Model F was perhaps the most common small-farm tractor of the early 1920s. To teach farming to his grandchildren, Ford requested a circa… Read More ›
Edsel Ford: What might have been – Robert Sherefkin @automotivenews
Had Henry’s son been given more power and more time, the company would have a different look today Henry Ford was the pivotal manufacturing genius of the 20th century. His mass production of the automobile changed the world. But his… Read More ›
Harvey S. Firestone (Wikipedia)
On February 7, 1938, automotive industry pioneer Harvey Samuel Firestone, founder of the major American tire company that bore his name, dies at the age of 69 in Miami Beach, Florida. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Type Subsidiary Industry Manufacturing Founded… Read More ›
Pair of Ford’s Village Industries mills come up for sale – Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
Neither looks like they’d have much to do with automotive manufacturing or even the so-called arsenal of democracy, but a pair of buildings along the Middle River Rouge west of Detroit once played a role in both and may soon… Read More ›
When Dodge Bought Ford – Dodge v. Ford Motor Co
Excellent video from Wheelhouse on YouTube on the early Detroit rivalry between Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers Horace and John. The full story of the case can be found here at Wikipedia Dodge v. Ford Motor Company A Ford… Read More ›