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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieKF5JRV > TODAY 16.06.26 17:32l 37 Lines 2668 Bytes #2 (0) @ WW BID : 26908_KF5JRV Read: GUEST Subj: Today in History - Jun 16 Path: JH4XSY<JE7YGF<LU4ECL<VK2RZ<LU9DCE<KC2NJV<N2NOV<NS2B<KF5JRV Sent: 260616/0816Z 26908@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQ6.0.24 At 9:30 in the morning on June 16, 1903, Henry Ford and other prospective stockholders in the Ford Motor Company meet in Detroi t to sign the official paperwork required to create a new corporation. Twelve stockholders were listed on the forms, which were signed, notarized and sent to the office of Michigan窶冱 secretary of state. The company was officially incorporated the follo wing day, when the secretary of state窶冱 office received the articles of association. Ford had built his first gasoline-powered vehicle窶背hich he called the Quadricycle窶琶n a workshop behind his home in 1896, wh ile he was working as the chief engineer for the main plant of the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. He made two unsucces sful attempts to start a company to manufacture automobiles before 1903. A month after the Ford Motor Company was established, the first Ford car was assembled at a plant on Mack Avenue in Detroit In the early days of Ford, only a few cars were assembled per day, and they were built by hand by small groups of workers from parts made to order by other companies. With the introduction of the Model T in 1908, Ford succeeded in his mission to produce an affordable, efficient and reliable automobile for everyone: within a decade, nearly half the cars in America were Model Ts. The sensational demand for the 窶弋in Lizzie窶� led Ford to develop mass-production methods, including large production plants, the use of standardized, interchangeable parts and, in 1913, the world窶冱 first moving assembly line for cars. In 1914, to fu rther improve productivity, Ford introduced the $5 daily wage for an eight-hour day for his workers (up from $2.34 for nine hou rs), setting a standard for the industry. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, Ford began construction of a massive industrial complex along the banks of the River Rou ge in Dearborn, Michigan. The plant combined all the components necessary for auto production, including a glass factory, steel mill and assembly line. When Ford Motor窶冱 other stockholders resisted the idea of building the River Rouge plant due to its enormous costs, Henry Ford (who as early as 1906 owned 58.5 percent of the company) bought them out, installing his son Edsel a s president of the company in 1919. The elder Ford retained full control of the company窶冱 operations, however, and returned t o the presidency briefly after Edsel died in 1943, before handing it over to his grandson, Henry Ford II, in 1945. Two years la ter, the legendary automaker died at his Dearborn home at the age of 83. 73 de Scott KF5JRV Pmail: KF5JRV@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA Email KF5JRV@gmail.com
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