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HENRY FORD built the most famous car of all time, certainly the greatest manufacturing enterprise of its day; he would still be selected by a majority of literate people of the world as the most ...

Ford’s decision to pay $5 a day helped create America as we know it today.

The story of the Model T is central to how Detroit became the Motor City. Here are some fast facts about Ford Motor Co.'s early days, the Model T and early factories. 1903: Henry Ford creates Ford ...

There is no record of the exact formula Ford used to make the plastic components of the automobile. Contemporaneous sources claimed that in addition to soybeans, it was composed of other agricultural ...

On this date 125 years ago, Henry Ford finished building his first four-wheeled vehicle and drove it on the streets of Detroit. It was called the Quadricycle. "And the rest, as they say, is history," ...