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 100,000th… Read More ›
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
Video showing Henry and Edsel with the “New Ford Car”
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 ›
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 ›
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
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›