History of Ford Motor Company

Introduction

The paper is to focus on the History of Ford Motor Company. It is all stated 85 years ago, on June 16, 1903, Henry Ford and eleven associates founded the Ford Motor Company in the city of Detroit with an initial capital of $ 28,000. Nobody foresaw that that name would become synonymous with the car and seven years later would produce a revolution in manufacturing systems in the automotive industry

The Beginnings

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Springwells Township, Wayne County, Michigan. He was the eldest of six children of William and Mary Ford Litogot. His father, a native of Ireland, had come to America in 1847 devoted to agriculture. Henry attended the Dearborn school and never showed much interest in the study or in agricultural work, if anything changes that had to do with mechanics.

At age 15 he built his first steam engine and before long was employed as an apprentice mechanic in Detroit, first in the workshops of James F. Flower and Bros and then in the Dry Dock Co. Completed his apprenticeship in 1882 became representative and repairing mechanical Westinghouse steam agricultural engines. In 1888 he married Clara Jane Bryant was born of that marriage and his son Edsel in 1893.

In July 1891 he got a job at the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit, while in his spare time built in the laundry room of his home in Bagley Avenue Detroit 58, his first gasoline engine Otto cycle, which was completed three years later. In 1896 Henry applied this engine to a quad, becoming the first cars on the streets of Detroit (Richard, 1-5)

On August 19, 1899, Ford left his job at the Edison and founded together with other partners, the Detroit Automobile Company where he was technical director, but the company went bankrupt a year and a half later.

This failure did not prevent Henry Ford continued making automobiles, but by hand. From that time recall a competition with two cylinders which won the champion of the time, Alexander Winton and two huge four-cylinder engine called "999" and "Yellow Arrow". The "999" won the Diamond Trophy conducted by Barnet Oldfield to be a personal success that launched Ford finally to the automotive world (David, 1-4).

Five Years and 20,000 Cars

In 1904 the 'A' was replaced by the "C" while throwing the first four-cylinder called 'B', a luxury car built to meet the wishes of a group of shareholders opposed to the theories of Ford who was inclined to low-priced cars.

In 1905 the range was completed with the model "F" interspersed between the other two, until in 1906 insisting luxury models was presented the "K", the first six-cylinder engine capable of walking a mile in a minute. Unfortunately, the production costs of this model exceeded the sale price was too high.

In the same year, Ford launched the model "N" which meant a return to economic models, definitely abandoning the two-cylinder, following the acquisition by Ford of the shares of several of its ...