Henry Ford Research Paper

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History of Ford Motors
Henry Ford built his first automobile, which he called a quadricycle, at his home in Detroit in 1896. His initial foray into automobile manufacturing was the Detroit Automobile Company, founded in 1899. The company floundered, and in 1901 was reorganized as the Henry Ford Company. On June 16, 1903, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated, with 12 investors owning a total of 1000 shares. In 1908, the Ford company manufactured the first Model T, regarded as the first affordable automobile. Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences characterised by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were