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In December 1928 Ford (since 1924 entirely owned by Henry Ford, his wife and their son Edsel) announced in London that it had formed a new company, Ford Motor Company Limited, [11] with three US directors (Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Charles E. Sorensen) and four British directors (Sir Percy Perry, Roland Kitson, Sir John T Davies and Lord ...
President of Ford Motor Company No. Name Took office Left office Notes 1 John S. Gray [13] June 17, 1903 October 22, 1906 2 Henry Ford [13] October 22, 1906 January 1, 1919 3 Edsel Ford [13] January 1, 1919 May 26, 1943 4 Henry Ford [13] May 26, 1943 September 21, 1945 5 Henry Ford II [13] September 21, 1945 November 9, 1960 6 Robert McNamara [13]
The Ford Motor Company of Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, [3] although it once had its own distinct group of shareholders. [4] At its formation, Ford Motor Company was not a shareholder of Ford Canada, but its twelve founding shareholders directly held 51% of Ford Canada's shares, and Henry Ford himself owned 13% of the new company. [2]
The Henry Ford Company was an automobile manufacturer active from 1901 to 1902. Named after Henry Ford, it was his second company after the Detroit Automobile Company, which had been founded in 1899. The Henry Ford Company was founded November 1901 from the reorganization of the Detroit Automobile Company. [1]
In 1977 the plant employed 7,500 workers, and there was talk of this increasing to 10,000 as full capacity was reached. [2]More recently, in 2006, with auto-production processes increasingly automated and Ford Europe suffering from serious over-capacity, the plant still had approximately 7,000 employees, and was estimated to account for 21,000 jobs when ancillary suppliers were included in the ...
[1]: 220–221 Investigative journalist Max Wallace doubted the veracity of this claim and wrote that James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.
Fordism is an industrial engineering and manufacturing system that serves as the basis of modern social and labor-economic systems that support industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption.
Ford's investment opportunity dried up overnight without producing any rubber for Ford's tires, and the second town was also abandoned. In 1945, Henry Ford's grandson Henry Ford II sold the area comprising both towns back to the Brazilian government for a loss of over US$20 million (equivalent to $338 million in 2023).