Advertisements Buried deep into the Brazilian jungle sit the remains of what was once Henry Ford’s utopian city. A place where one of the richest and most influential men on the planet wanted not to make money, but to –… Read More ›
Henry Ford
Henry Ford digitization project reaches 100,000 artifacts, Detroit design exhibit now open – Tom Comerro @Hemmings
Advertisements The Henry Ford Digitization Project Hits a Milestone The Henry Ford has announced a milestone in the massive effort to digitize its enormous collection of artifacts. Last week, the museum staff scanned its 100,000th artifact, a photograph of the… Read More ›
Ford Model A Introduction – King Rose Archives @YouTube
Advertisements 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
Ford Model A Introduced in 1927 – King Rose Archives @YouTube
Advertisements 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
Advertisements 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… Read More ›
Movie About The Legacy Of Henry Ford Is In The Works – Shane McGlaun @FordAuthority
Advertisements 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… Read More ›
Mansions and Homes of Detroit’s Richest Residents
Advertisements 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
Advertisements 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… Read More ›
Edsel Ford: What might have been – Robert Sherefkin @automotivenews
Advertisements 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… Read More ›
Harvey S. Firestone (Wikipedia)
Advertisements 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… Read More ›