Andrea Ouarrak Henry Ford

The colonisation of America

• The first European colonists were English, French and Dutch merchants.

• On November 21 the pilgrim fathers landed on the costs of Massachussets were they founded the first English colony.

• From the very start, the population was a meltin pot of diverse ethnic traditions.

Henry Ford

• Henry Ford was born July 30 1863 on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan.

• His father, William Ford, was born in Ireland and his mother, Mary Ford was born in Michigan.

• In 1879, Ford left home to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit.

• In 1882, he returned to Dearborn, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine.

• During this period he also attended Detroit's University.

1891 - 1898

• In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company.

• After his promotion in 1893, he had enough time and money to devote attention to his experiments on gasoline engines.

• These experiments culminated in 1896 with the first vehicle, the Quadricycle.

Encouraged by Edison, Ford designed and built a second vehicle...

the model t

• The Model T was introduced on October 1, 1908. The car was very simple to drive and cheap to repair. It was so cheap that by 1920s, a majority of Americans had a Model T.

• Ford also created a huge publicity machine in Detroit to ensure every newspaper carried stories about the new product!

• Always on the hunt for more efficiency and lower costs, in 1913, Ford introduced the moving assembly belts into his plants, which enabled an enormous increase in production.

Henry Ford & Son• In December 1918,

Henry Ford turned the presidency of Ford Motor Company over to his son Edsel Ford.

• Henry started another company and made a show of taking himself and his best employees to the new company.

Ford's thought

• Ford was a pioneer of "welfare capitalism", designed to improve the lot of his workers and especially to reduce the heavy turnover that had many departments.

• On January 5, 1914, Ford announced his $5-per-day program, raising the minimum daily pay.

• It also set a new reduced workweek, although the details vary in different accounts.

• Ford and Crowther in 1922 described it as six 8-hour-days.

• Ford was adamantly against labor unions: he thought they were too heavily influenced by some leaders.

• By 1932, Ford manufecturing one third of all the world's automobiles.

• He produced in Brasil, Australia, Great Britain and a lot of countries all over the world.

RacingFord Mustang Shelby GT500

1967

• Ford mantained an interest in auto racing untill he died. But let's see some masterpieces...

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