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History of Ford Motor Company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Henry Ford (ca. 1919)

The Ford Motor Company  is an American  automaker and the world's fifth largest automaker  based on worldwide vehicle sales . Based in Dearborn, Michigan , a suburb of Detroit , the automaker was founded by Henry Ford , on June 16, 1903. Ford Motor Company would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression . The largest family-controlled company in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 110 years. Ford now encompasses two brands: Ford and Lincoln . Ford once owned 5 other luxury brands: Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Mercury. Over time, those brands were sold to other companies and Mercury was discontinued.

Contents
  • 1 Foundation
  • 2 Early developments and assembly line
  • 3 Post-World War I developments
    • 3.1 Lincoln Motor Company
    • 3.2 Fordlândia
    • 3.3 The Great Depression
    • 3.4 Soviet Fords and the Gorki
    • 3.5 Era of neutrality
    • 3.6 Wartime
  • 4 Post-World War II developments
  • 5 Recapitalization, restructuring
    • 5.1 Cash hoarding
  • 6 General corporate timeline
  • 7 Criticism
    • 7.1 Nazi collaboration
    • 7.2 Argentine "Dirty War"
    • 7.3 Ford Pinto
  • 8 References
  • 9 Bibliography

Foundation [ edit ]

Henry Ford  built his first automobile, which he called a quadricycle , at his home in Detroit in 1896. The location has been redeveloped, where the Michigan Building  now stands, and the tracks for the Detroit People Mover  and the Times Square People Mover station  are nearby. At the entrance to the Michigan Building, there is a commemorative plaque identifying the original location of the Ford home. The coal shed has been recreated using the original bricks at Greenfield Village  in nearby Dearborn .[1]  His initial foray into automobile manufacturing was the Detroit Automobile Company , founded in 1899. The company foundered, and in 1901 was reorganized as the Henry Ford Company . In March 1902, after falling out with his financial backers, Ford left the company with the rights to his name and 900 dollars .[citation needed ]

Henry Ford turned to an acquaintance, coal dealer Alexander Y. Malcomson , to help finance another automobile company. Malcomson put up the money to start the partnership "Ford and Malcomson" and the pair designed a car and began ordering parts. However, by February 1903, Ford and Malcomson had gone through more money than expected, and the manufacturing firm of John  and Horace Dodge , who had made parts for Ford and Malcomson, was demanding payment.[2]  Malcomson, constrained by his coal business demands, turned to his uncle John S. Gray , the president of the German-American Savings Bank and a good friend. Malcomson proposed incorporating Ford and Malcomson to bring in new investors, and wanted Gray to join the company, thinking that Gray's name would attract other investors. Gray was not interested at first, but Malcomson promised he could withdraw his share at any time, so Gray reluctantly agreed. On the strength of Gray's name, Malcomson recruited other business acquaintances to invest, including local merchants Albert Strelow and Vernon Fry, lawyers John Anderson and Horace Rackham , Charles T. Bennett of the Daisy Air Rifle Company , and his own clerk James Couzens .[2]  Malcomson also convinced the Dodges to accept stock in lieu of payment.[citation needed ]

On June 16, 1903, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated, with 12 investors owning a total of 1000 shares. Ford and Malcomson together retained 51% of the new company in exchange for their earlier investments. When the total stock ownership was tabulated, shares in the company were: Henry Ford  (255 shares), Alexander Y. Malcomson  (255 shares), John S. Gray  (105 shares), John W. Anderson (50 shares), Horace Rackham  (50 shares), Horace E. Dodge  (50 shares), John F. Dodge  (50 shares), Charles T. Bennett (50 shares), Vernon C. Fry (50 shares), Albert Strelow (50 shares), James Couzens  (25 shares), and Charles J. Woodall (10 shares).[3]

At the first stockholder meeting on June 18, Gray was elected president, Ford vice-president, and James Couzens secretary.[2]  Despite Gray's misgivings, the Ford Motor Company was immediately profitable, with profits by October 1, 1903 of almost $37,000. A dividend of 10% was paid that October, an additional dividend of 20% at the beginning of 1904, and another 68% in June 1904. Two dividends of 100% each in June and July 1905 brought the total investor profits to nearly 300% in just over 2 years; 1905 total profits were almost $300,000.[2]

However, there were internal frictions in the company that Gray was nominally in charge of. Most of the investors, both Malcomson and Gray included, had their own businesses to attend to; only Ford and Couzens worked full-time at the company. The issue came to a head when the principal stockholders, Ford and Malcomson, quarreled over the future direction of the company. Gray sided with Ford. By early 1906 Malcomson was effectively frozen out of the Ford Motor Company, and in May sold his shares to Henry Ford.[2]  John S. Gray died unexpectedly in 1906, and his position as Ford's president was taken over by Ford himself soon afterward.[2]

Ford was subject to lawsuits or threats from the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers  early in its history. The Association claimed patent rights to most gasoline-powered automobiles. After several years of legal wrangling, the Association eventually dropped its case against Ford in 1911.[citation needed ]

Early developments and assembly line [ edit ] The coal shed on Bagley Street, Detroit where Henry Ford built his first car in 1896.

During its early years, the company produced a range of vehicles designated, chronologically, from the Ford Model A (1903)  to the Model K and Model S (Ford's last right-hand steering model)[4]  of 1907.[5]  The K, Ford's first six-cylinder model, was known as "the gentleman's roadster" and "the silent cyclone", and sold for US$2800;[5]  by contrast, around that time, the Enger 40  was priced at US$2000,[6]  the Colt Runabout  US$1500,[7]  the high-volume Oldsmobile  Runabout [8]  US$650, Western 's Gale Model A US$500,[9]  and the Success  hit the amazingly low US$250.[8]

The first Ford assembly plant in La Boca, Buenos Aires , c. 1921.

In 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T . Earlier models were produced at a rate of only a few a day at a rented factory on Mack Avenue  in Detroit , Michigan  and later at the Piquette Avenue Plant  (the first company-owned factory), with groups of two or three men working on each car from components made to order by other companies (what would come to be called an "assembled car"). The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Avenue Plant and in the car's first full year of production, 1909, just over 10,000 Model Ts were built. As demand for the car grew, the company moved production to the much larger Highland Park  Plant  in 1910. In 1911, 69,762[10]  Model Ts were produced, with 170,211 in 1912.[11]  By 1913, the company had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly line  and mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from ​12  1⁄2  hours in October to 2 hours 40 minutes (and ultimately 1 hour 33 minutes),[11]  and boosted annual output to 202,667 units that year[11]  After a Ford ad promised profit-sharing  if sales hit 300,000 between August 1914 and August 1915,[12]  sales in 1914 reached 308,162, and 501,462 in 1915;[11]  by 1920, production would exceed one million a year.

These innovations were hard on employees, and turnover of workers was very high, while increased productivity reduced labor demand.[11]  Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover problem by doubling pay to $5 a day[13]  cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight-hour day for a 5-day work week (which also increased sales; a line worker could buy a T with less than four months' pay),[11]  and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers, including disabled people considered unemployable by other firms.[11]  Employee turnover plunged, productivity soared, and with it, the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had criticized Ford's generous labor practices when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made.[14]

Ford assembly line (1913).

While Ford attained international status in 1904 with the founding of Ford of Canada , it was in 1911 the company began to rapidly expand overseas, with the opening of assembly plants in Ireland (1917), England and France, followed by Denmark (1923), Germany (1925), Austria (1925),[11]  and Argentina (1925).[15]  A factory was opened in Japan (1925) at Yokohama , and also in South Africa (1924)[16]  and Australia (1925) as subsidiaries of Ford of Canada due to preferential tariff  rules for Commonwealth  countries. By the end of 1919, Ford was producing 50 percent of all cars in the United States , and 40% of all British ones;[11]  by 1920, half of all cars in the U.S. were Model Ts. (The low price also killed the cyclecar  in the U.S.)[11]  The assembly line transformed the industry; soon, companies without it risked bankruptcy. Of 200 U.S. car makers in 1920, only 17 were left in 1940.[11]

Ford 1916 Model T  Field Ambulance. This canvas on wood frame model was used extensively by the British & French as well as the American Expeditionary Force  in World War I . Its top speed was 45 mph (72 km/h), produced by a 4-cylinder water-cooled engine

It also transformed technology. Henry Ford is reported to have said, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Before the assembly line, Ts had been available in a variety of colors, including red, blue, and green, but not black. Now, paint had become a production bottleneck; only Japan Black  dried quickly enough, and not until Duco  lacquer  appeared in 1926 would other colors reappear on the T.[11]

In 1915, Henry Ford went on a peace mission to Europe aboard a ship, joining other pacifists in efforts to stop World War I . This led to an increase in his personal popularity. Ford would subsequently go on to support the war effort with the Model T becoming the underpinnings for Allied military vehicles, like the Ford 3-Ton M1918  tank, and the 1916 ambulance.[citation needed ]

Post-World War I developments [ edit ]

By 1916, the company had accumulated a capital surplus of $60 million, but Henry Ford declared that he intended to end special dividends for shareholders in favor of massive investments in new plants, including the River Rouge plant , allowing Ford to dramatically increase production, and the number of people employed at his plants, at the same time as cutting the prices of his cars. The Dodge brothers, John Francis Dodge  and Horace Elgin Dodge , the largest non-family shareholders, with 10% of the company, objected and took Ford to court in 1917 in an often cited case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Company .[17]  The judge found in their favor requiring a $19million special dividend. The decision was then upheld in the 1919 appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court  which stated that:[citation needed ]

A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the non-distribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes ...

In response Henry Ford determined to buy out the remaining shareholders. To encourage this, he threatened to leave and set up a rival company, offering to buy out the minority shareholders, at varying prices. He gained complete control in July 1919 at a cost of $125 million, made up of $106 million of the stock and $19 million in court-ordered dividend, financed with a $75 million loan from two eastern banks. The Dodge brothers received $25 million.[18]  At this time Edsel Ford  also succeeded his father as president of the company, although Henry still kept a hand in management.[citation needed ]

While prices were kept low through highly efficient engineering, the company used an old-fashioned personalized management system, and neglected consumer demand for improved vehicles. So, while four-wheel brakes  were invented by Arrol-Johnson  (and were used on the 1909 Argyll ),[11]  they did not appear on a Ford until 1927,[11]  only a year before Chevrolet. Ford steadily lost market share to GM  and Chrysler , as these and other domestic and foreign competitors began offering fresher automobiles with more innovative features and luxury options. GM had a range of models from relatively cheap to luxury, tapping all price points in the spectrum, while less wealthy people purchased used Model Ts . The competitors also opened up new markets by extending credit for purchases, so consumers could buy these expensive automobiles with monthly payments. Ford initially resisted this approach, insisting such debts would ultimately hurt the consumer and the general economy. Ford eventually relented and started offering the same terms in December 1927, when Ford unveiled the redesigned Model A , and retired the Model T  after producing 15 million units. An early version of the Ford script in the oval badge was first used on the 1928 Model A; the Ford script had been created in 1903 by Childe Harold Wills , and the oval trademark in 1907.[19]

Lincoln Motor Company [ edit ]

On February 4, 1922 Ford expanded its reach into the luxury auto market through its acquisition of the Lincoln Motor Company  from Henry M. Leland  who had founded and named the company in 1917 for Abraham Lincoln  whom Henry Leland admired. The Mercury  division was established later in 1938 to serve the mid-price auto market between the Ford and Lincoln brands.[20]

Ford Motor Company dedicated the largest museum of American History in 1929, The Henry Ford . Henry Ford would go on to acquire Abraham Lincoln's chair, which he was assassinated in, from the owners of Ford's Theatre . Abraham Lincoln's chair would be displayed along with John F. Kennedy 's Lincoln presidential limousine  in the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, known today as The Henry Ford. Kennedy's limousine was leased to the White House by Ford.

Fordlândia [ edit ] Main article: Fordlândia

In 1928, Henry Ford negotiated a deal with the government of Brazil for a plot of land in the Amazon Rainforest. There, Ford attempted to cultivate rubber for use in the company's automobiles. After considerable labor unrest, social experimentation, and a failure to produce rubber, and after the invention of synthetic rubber , the settlement was sold in 1945 and abandoned.

The Great Depression [ edit ]

During the great depression , Ford in common with other manufacturers, responded to the collapse in motor sales by reducing the scale of their operations and laying off workers. By 1932, the unemployment  rate in Detroit  had risen to 30%[21]  with thousands of families facing real hardship. Although Ford did assist a small number of distressed families with loans and parcels of land to work, the majority of the thousands of unskilled workers who were laid off were left to cope on their own. However, Henry Ford angered many by making public statements that the unemployed should do more to find work for themselves.[citation needed ]

This led to Detroit's Unemployed Council  organizing the Ford Hunger March . On March 7, 1932 some 3,000 - 5,000 unemployed workers assembled in West Detroit to march on Ford's River Rouge  plant to deliver a petition demanding more support. As the march moved up Miller Road and approached Gate 3 the protest turned ugly. The police fired tear gas  into the crowd and fire trucks were used to soak the protesters with icy water. When the protesters responded by throwing rocks, the violence escalated rapidly and culminated in the police and plant security guards firing live rounds through the gates of the plant at the unarmed protesters. Four men were killed outright and a fifth died later in the hospital. Up to 60 more were seriously injured.[22]

Soviet Fords and the Gorki [ edit ]

In May 1929 the Soviet Union  signed an agreement with the Ford Motor Company. Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod . Many American engineers and skilled auto workers moved to the Soviet Union to work on the plant and its production lines, which was named Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod  (GAZ ), or Gorki Automotive Plant in 1932. A few American workers stayed on after the plant's completion, and eventually became victims of Stalin's Great Terror , either shot[23]  or exiled to Soviet gulags .[24]  In 1933, the Soviets completed construction on a production line for the Ford Model-A passenger car, called the GAZ-A , and a light truck, the GAZ-AA . Both these Ford models were immediately adopted for military use. By the late 1930s production at Gorki was 80,000-90,000 "Russian Ford" vehicles per year. With its original Ford-designed vehicles supplemented by imports and domestic copies of imported equipment, the Gorki operations eventually produced a range of automobiles, trucks, and military vehicles.[citation needed ]

Era of neutrality [ edit ]

During the first 27 months of World War II, when the U.S. was neutral (to December 1941), Ford was hesitant to participate in the Allied military effort. Ford insisted that peaceful trade was the best way to avoid war. Ford had a subsidiary in Germany . In 1936, a Ford executive visiting Germany was informed by a Nazi official that Ford's Cologne plant manager was a Jew (he had one grandparent who was Jewish), prompting discussions at Ford offices in both Germany and the U.S. Heinrich Albert, Ford's Germany-U.S. liaison, insisted that the manager be fired. The manager was replaced by Robert Schmidt, who would play an important role in Germany's war effort.[25]

Henry Ford had said war was a waste of time, and did not want to profit from it.[14] [26]  He was concerned the Nazis during the 1930s might nationalize Ford factories in Germany. Ford nevertheless established a close collaboration with Germany's Nazi government before the war—so close, in fact, that Ford received, in July 1938, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle  medal from the regime.[25]  Ford's outspoken anti-semitism , including his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent , which published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , also lent credence to the view that he sympathized with the Nazis.[25] [27]  In the spring of 1939, the Nazi government assumed day-to-day control of many foreign-owned factories in Germany. However, Ford's Dearborn headquarters continued to maintain a 52% ownership over its German factories but with no voice or control or financial reward. Ford factories contributed significantly to the buildup of Germany's armed forces. Ford negotiated a resource-sharing agreement that allowed the German military to access scarce supplies, particularly rubber. During this same period, Ford was hesitant to participate in the Allied military effort.[25]  In June 1940, after France had fallen to the Wehrmacht, Henry Ford personally vetoed a plan to build airplane engines for the Allies.[28]

Wartime [ edit ]

The company enthusiastically supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor, making it a major component of the "Arsenal of Democracy" that President Roosevelt had promised would mobilize industrial resources to win the war. Henry, aged 76 and early senile, played a minor role even though he had 55% ownership of the company stock. His son Edsel Ford, the company president and owner of 42% of the stock, had never been a pacifist like his father and now made all the decisions.[29]

The company produced 390,000 tanks and trucks, 27,000 engines, 270,000 Jeeps, over 8000 B-24 Liberators, and hundreds of thousands of parts, gun mounts, and machine tools for the war effort.[30]  It ranked third among corporations in the value of wartime production contracts.[31]

The Company's new Willow Run  factory was designed for the production of B-24 bombers although the production line was initially characterized by bungling and incompetence.[32]  Ford's efforts benefited the Allies as well as the Axis. After Bantam  invented the Jeep , the US War Department handed production over to Ford and Willys .[citation needed ]

The Treasury Department investigated Ford for alleged collaboration with German-run Ford plants in occupied France, but did not find conclusive evidence. After the war, Schmidt and other Nazi-era managers kept their jobs with Ford's German division.[28]  In the United Kingdom, Ford built a new factory in Trafford Park , Manchester  during WWII where over 34,000 Rolls-Royce Merlin  aero engines were completed by a workforce trained from scratch.[citation needed ]

Post-World War II developments [ edit ] A Ford Taurus , one of Ford's best-selling models. In its 21-year lifespan, it sold 7,000,000 units. It is the 4th best-selling car in Ford's history, behind only the F-150 , the Model T , and the Mustang .

At this point, Ford's wife and daughter-in-law intervened and demanded that he turn control over to his grandson [33]   Henry Ford II . They threatened to sell off their stock (amounting to half the company's total shares) if he refused. Henry was infuriated, but there was nothing he could do, and so he gave in. When Henry II, who came to be called affectionately "Hank the Deuce," assumed command, the Company was losing US$9 million a month and in financial chaos. [34] In 1943, a despondent Edsel Ford died of stomach cancer. Henry decided then to resume direct control of the company, but this proved a very poor idea as he was 78 years old and suffering from heart problems and atherosclerosis. His mental state was also questionable, and there was a very real possibility that the company would collapse if he died or became incapacitated. The Roosevelt Administration had a contingency plan in place to nationalize Ford if need be so that they wouldn't lose vital military production.[citation needed ]

Henry Ford died of a brain hemorrhage on April 7, 1947. Mourners passed by at a rate of 5,000 each hour at the public viewing on Wednesday of that week at Greenfield Village  in Dearborn . The funeral service for Henry Ford  was held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul  in Detroit  on Thursday April 9, 1947.[35]  At the funeral service, 20,000 people stood outside St. Paul's Cathedral in the rain with 600 inside,[35]  while the funeral had attracted national attention as an estimated seven million people had mourned his death (according to A&E Biography ).

Ernest R. Breech , head of Bendix Aviation ,[34]  was hired in 1946, and became first Executive Vice President, then Board Chairman in 1955. Henry II served as President from 1945 to 1960, and as Chairman and CEO from 1960 to 1980. In 1956, Ford became a publicly traded  corporation . The Ford family maintains about 40% controlling interest in the company, through a series of Special Class B preferred stocks . Also in 1956, following its emphasis on safety improvements in new models, Motor Trend  awarded the company its "Car of the Year" award.[36]

In 1946, Robert McNamara  joined Ford as manager of planning and financial analysis. He advanced rapidly through a series of top-level management positions to the presidency of Ford on 9 November 1960, one day after John F. Kennedy 's election . The first company head selected outside the Ford family, McNamara had gained the favor of Henry Ford II, and had aided in Ford's expansion and success in the postwar period. Less than five weeks after becoming president at Ford, he accepted Kennedy's invitation to join his cabinet , as Secretary of Defense .[citation needed ]

Ford introduced the iconic Thunderbird  in 1955 and the Edsel  brand automobile line in 1958, following a US$250 million research and marketing campaign, which had failed to ask questions crucial for the marque 's success.[37]  The Edsel was cancelled after less than 27 months in the marketplace in November 1960. The corporation bounced back from the failure of the Edsel by introducing its compact Falcon  in 1960 and the Mustang  in 1964. By 1967, Ford of Europe was established.[citation needed ]

Lee Iacocca  was involved with the design of several successful Ford automobiles, most notably the Mustang. He was also the "moving force," as one court put it, behind the notorious Pinto . He promoted other ideas which did not reach the marketplace as Ford products. Eventually, he became the president of the company, but clashed with "Bunkie" Knudsen  as well as Henry II and ultimately, on July 13, 1978, he was fired by Henry Ford II, despite the company's having earned a $2.2 billion profit for the year. Chrysler  soon hired Iacocca, which he returned to profitability during the 1980s.[citation needed ]

In 1942, Elsa Iwanowa, who was then 16 years old and a resident of Rostov in the Soviet Union, and many other citizens of countries that were occupied by the Wehrmacht  were transported in cattle cars to the western part of Germany, where they were displayed to visiting businessmen. From there Iwanowa and others were forced to become slave laborers for Ford's German subsidiary, which had become separated from the Dearborn headquarters as a result of the U.S. declaration of war. "On March 4, 1998, fifty-three years after she was liberated from the German Ford plant, Elsa Iwanowa demanded justice, filing a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Ford Motor Company."[38]  In court, Ford admitted that Iwanowa and many others like her were "forced to endure a sad and terrible experience"; Ford, however, moved to have the suit dismissed on the grounds that it would be best redressed on "a nation-to-nation, government-to-government" basis.[39]  In 1999, the court dismissed Iwanowa's suit. At about the same time, a number of German companies, including GM subsidiary Opel, agreed to contribute $5.1 billion to a fund to compensate the surviving slave laborers.[39]  After being the subject of much adverse publicity, Ford, in March 2000, agreed to contribute $13 million to the compensation fund.[citation needed ]

Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally , who was hired by William Clay Ford, Jr.  to restructure the company.

In 1979 Philip Caldwell  became Chairman, succeeded in 1985 by Donald Petersen . Harold Poling  served as Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1993. Alex Trotman  was Chairman and CEO from 1993 to 1998, and Jacques Nasser  served at the helm from 1999 to 2001. Henry Ford's great-grandson, William Clay Ford Jr. , is the company's current Chairman of the Board and was CEO until September 5, 2006, when he named Alan Mulally  from Boeing  as his successor.[citation needed ]

Recapitalization, restructuring [ edit ]

Cash hoarding [ edit ]

In April 2000 the Ford Motor Company announced its recapitalization plan distributing about half of its $24 billion cash hoard , and paying a $10 billion special dividend, and the issuance of additional stock to the Ford family, to provide more flexibility for the Ford family in terms of estate planning. In 2000 Ford's cash hoard was the largest of any company in the world.[40]

As of 2006, the Ford family owned about 5% of Company shares outstanding.[41]

In December 2006, Ford announced it would mortgage all assets, including factories and equipment, office property, intellectual property (patents  and blue oval trademarks ), and its stakes in subsidiaries, to raise $23.4 billion in cash. The secured credit line is expected to finance product development during the restructuring through 2009, as the company expects to burn through $17 billion in cash before turning a profit. The action was unprecedented in the company's 103-year history.[42] [43]  At the end of 2012 Ford Motor Company's cash balance was $22.9 billion and was listed as ten on the list of U.S. non-financial corporation sector's top ten cash kings by Moody's Investors Service  in their March 2013 annual report on Global Credit Research.[44] [45] [46]

General corporate timeline [ edit ] Henry Ford and the Quadricycle 1896 Quadricycle at The Henry Ford Museum  in Dearborn, MI 1903 Model A Ford Model T  ad - ca 1908 1930 Model A Fordor The Ford Australia plant under construction in Geelong, Victoria , Australia , 1926 Mustang Serial #1 - The First Mustang
  • 1896: Henry Ford builds his first vehicle – the Quadricycle  – on a buggy frame with 4 bicycle wheels.
  • 1898: Ford creates the Detroit Automobile Company ; two and a half years later it is dissolved.
  • 1901: Ford wins high-profile car race in Grosse Pointe, Mi. The Henry Ford Company  is incorporated but discontinued the following year only to be reinvigorated by Henry Leland  as the Cadillac Motor Company .
  • 1903: Ford Motor Company incorporated with 11 original investors. The Model A  "Fordmobile" is introduced - 1,708 cars are produced.
  • 1904: Ford Motor Company of Canada  incorporated in Walkerville, Ontario . Henry Ford teams up with Harvey Firestone  of Firestone Tires
  • 1906: Ford becomes the top selling brand in the US, with 8,729 cars produced.
  • 1908: Model T  is introduced. 15 million are produced through 1927.
  • 1909: Ford Motor Company (England) established, otherwise referred to as Ford of Britain
  • 1911: Ford opens first factory outside North America – in Manchester, England.
  • 1913: The moving assembly line  is introduced at Highland Park assembly plant , making Model T production 8 times faster. Ford opens second world branch in Argentina as Ford Motor Argentina .
  • 1914: Ford introduces $5 ($125, adjusted for inflation) wage for a workday  – double the existing rate.
  • 1916: Société française des automobiles Ford  incorporated in Bordeaux, France, by Percival Perry , the head of Ford of Britain .
  • 1918: Construction of the Rouge  assembly complex begins.
  • 1919: Edsel Ford  succeeds Henry as Company President.
  • 1920: Ford temporarily shuts down due to low sales. After removing unnecessary administrative expenses and waste, Ford reopens.[47]
  • 1921: Ford production exceeds 1 million cars per year, nearly 10 times more than Chevrolet - the next biggest selling brand.
  • 1922: Ford purchases Lincoln Motor Company  for US $8 million ($120 million, adjusted for inflation).
  • 1925: Ford introduces Ford Tri-Motor  airplane for airline services, and a factory was built in Yokohama, Japan  in February.
  • 1926: Ford Australia  is founded in Geelong, Victoria , Australia ,
  • 1927: Model T production ends, Ford introduces the next generation Model A , from the Rouge complex.
  • 1929: Ford regains production crown, with annual production peaking at 1.5 million cars
  • 1931: Ford and Chevy brands begin to alternate as U.S. production leaders, in battle for automobile sales during the Great Depression .
  • 1932: Ford introduces the one-piece cast V8  block. It makes the Model 18  the first low-priced V8-powered car. In London Royal Albert Hall the Model 19, or as it was marketed Model Y, are introduced February 19. The first of a long line of small European Fords.[48]
  • 1936: Lincoln-Zephyr  is introduced.
  • 1938: The German consul at Cleveland awards Henry Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle , the highest medal Nazi Germany  could bestow on a foreigner. There is some evidence Ford had Nazi sympathies, at least before World War II. He may have financed some Nazi activities, and was active in anti-semitic efforts.
  • 1939: Mercury division is formed to fill the gap between economical Fords and luxury Lincolns. Operated as a division at Ford until 1945
  • 1941: The Lincoln Continental  is introduced. Ford begins building general-purpose "jeep" for the military. First labor agreement with UAW-CIO covers North American employees.
  • 1942: Production of civilian vehicles halted, diverting factory capacity to producing B-24 Liberator  bombers, tanks, and other products for the war effort.
  • 1943: Edsel Ford dies of cancer at the age of 49, Henry Ford resumes presidency.
  • 1945: Henry Ford II becomes president.
  • 1945: Lincoln and Mercury are combined into a single division.
  • 1946: Ford sues the Allies for damages done to his factories in Dresden during the infamous bombing, and wins compensation.[citation needed ]
  • 1946: The Whiz Kids, former US Army Air Force officers, are hired to revitalize the company. Automobile production resumes.
  • 1947: Henry Ford dies of cerebral hemorrhage  at the age of 83; Henry Ford II becomes new chairman.
  • 1948: F-1  Truck introduced. Lincoln Continental  is introduced.
  • 1949: The '49 Ford introduces all-new post-war era cars. The "Woody"  station wagon is introduced.
  • 1953 Ford Canada Headquarters and Car Plant opens in Oakville, Ontario
  • 1954: Thunderbird  introduced as a personal luxury car with a V8 . Ford begins crash testing, and opens Arizona Proving Grounds .
  • 1956: Ford World Headquarters  dedicated, September 26, 1956
  • 1956: $10,000 ($93.3 thousand, adjusted for inflation) Lincoln Continental  Mark II introduced. Ford goes public with common stock shares. Ford's emphasis on safety with its Lifeguard option package, including seat belts  and dash padding, earns the company Motor Trend 's "Car of the Year" award.[36]
  • 1957: Ford launches the Edsel  brand of automobiles in the fall of 1957 as 1958 models. Ford is top selling brand, with 1.68 million automobiles produced.
  • 1959: Ford Credit  Corporation formed to provide automotive financing.
  • 1959: Ford withdraws the 1960 model Edsels from the market in November 1959.
  • 1960: Ford Galaxie  and compact  Ford Falcon  introduced.
  • 1960: Robert McNamara  is appointed President of Ford by Chairman Henry Ford II .
  • 1960: Ford President Robert McNamara  appointed Secretary of Defense by President elect John F. Kennedy .
  • 1962: Ford of Britain launches first generation of the Ford Cortina . It would dominate the mid-size family segment in Europe for the next 20 years.
  • 1964: Ford Mustang  the car that started the "pony car" class, Ford GT40  challenges Ferrari and Porsche at LeMans.
  • 1965: Ford brand US sales exceed 2 million units. Ford of Germany and Ford of Britain jointly launch the first generation Ford Transit  range of panel vans .
  • 1965: Ford Galaxie 500 LTD debuts, advertised as quieter than a Rolls Royce
  • 1966: Ford Bronco  sport utility vehicle introduced.
  • 1967: Ford of Europe is established by merging the operations of Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany.
  • 1967: Ford opens Talbotville car plant in St. Thomas, Ontario
  • 1968: Lincoln Mark Series  is introduced as the company's first personal luxury car to compete with the Cadillac Eldorado . Ford of Europe launches first generation Ford Escort .
  • 1970: Ford Maverick are introduced. Ford establishes Asia Pacific operations. Ford of Europe launches the third generation Cortina/Taunus - merging the two previously independent product lines under a common platform.
  • 1972: Retractable seat belts introduced.
  • 1973: Ford US brand sales reaches an all-time high of 2.35 million vehicles produced.
  • 1974: Ford Mustang II debuts as a smaller more economical pony car.
  • 1975: Ford Granada  and Mercury Monarch  introduced, Production of the Maverick dropped in 1975 with the release of the Granada  as a more European-style luxury compact. Ford of Europe launches the second generation Escort.
  • 1976: Ford of Europe launches the first generation Ford Fiesta
  • 1977: Ford of Europe launches the fourth generation Cortina/Taunus
  • 1978: Ford Motor Company celebrates 75th anniversary. Continental Mark V and Thunderbird available with "Diamond Jubilee Edition" packages. Fiesta is imported from Europe as an entry into the economy segment.
  • 1979: Ford acquires 25% stake in Mazda . Ford becomes the final American automaker to introduce downsized full-size cars  with radically smaller Panther platform .
  • 1980: Ford of Europe launches the third generation Escort, it is voted European Car of the Year  for 1981.
  • 1981: The Lincoln Town Car  and Ford Escort  are introduced. Fiesta discontinued in North America.
  • 1982: Ford of Europe introduce the Ford Sierra , ending production of the stalwart Cortina/Taunus after 20 years and four generations.
  • 1983: Ford launches a redesigned "aero design" Thunderbird . In a model shift, the Granada is discontinued in North America, replaced by a facelifted model re-branded as the LTD. All full-size models are now LTD Crown Victorias/Country Squires.
  • 1984: Ford Tempo  and Mercury Topaz  are introduced, replacing the Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr.
  • 1985: Ford Scorpio  launched by Ford of Europe. Replaces Granada as its full-size offering and is voted European Car of the Year  for 1986, Ford's second COTY win in the 1980s. Merkur  brand launched to market the Sierra and Scorpio models in North America. Purchases First Nationwide Financial Corporation, a savings and loan. Sold in 1994 after large losses. Ford Taurus  introduced with dramatic "aero design" styling, along with Ford Aerostar  minivan.
  • 1986: Ford of Europe launches the second generation of the Transit van family. Ford Capri  ceases production.
  • 1987: Ford acquires Aston Martin  Lagonda and Hertz Rent-a-Car . Henry Ford II dies at age 70.
  • 1988: Ford Festiva , built in Korea by Kia  is introduced.
  • 1989: Ford acquires Jaguar . Mazda MX-5 Miata  is unveiled. Third generation Fiesta is launched in Europe - and establishes itself as the fastest selling generation of Fiesta to date - 1 million units in less than two years. Acquires Associates First Capital Corporation, a finance company. In 1998, it is spun off to Ford shareholders.
  • 1990: Ford Aerostar is Motor Trend's Truck Of The Year, while Lincoln Town Car is Motor Trend's Car Of The Year. Merkur  brand of automobiles production discontinued. Ford of Europe launches fourth generation Escort.
  • 1991: Ford Explorer  is introduced, turning the traditionally rural and recreational SUV  into a popular family vehicle.
  • 1992: Ford Aerostar and Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable are redesigned; Ford Taurus becomes America's top selling car, displacing the Honda Accord. Ford of Europe announces first generation Ford Mondeo , the first product of the global CDW27 platform
  • 1992: Redesigned Ford Crown Victoria  and Mercury Grand Marquis  launched, the first new full-size sedans in 13 years; Ford Country Squire/Mercury Colony Park station wagon discontinued.
  • 1993: Ford launches Mondeo in Europe, and announces its North American derivatives - the Ford Contour  and Mercury Mystique
  • 1994: Ford Tempo  and Mercury Topaz  are discontinued - replaced by Ford Contour and Mercury Mystique* 1994: Ford Aspire  replaces Festiva, becoming the first car in its class to offer standard dual air bags and optional 4-wheel ABS.
  • 1995: Ford's first front-wheel-drive V8 sedan is introduced, the 4.6L V8-powered Lincoln Continental . Ford of Europe launches fourth-generation Fiesta. New front-wheel-drive Ford Windstar minivan is introduced. Aerostar remains in production. Redesigned Ford Explorer released, now with standard safety features such as dual air bags, 4-wheel ABS as standard equipment.
  • 1996: Ford certifies all plants in 26 countries to ISO 9000  quality and ISO 14001  environmental standards. The V12-powered Jaguar XJS is discontinued. Controversially redesigned "Ovoid" Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are introduced. Discontinuation of Chevrolet Caprice  leaves full size fleet market to Ford Crown Victoria . Ford increases investment stake in a troubled Mazda  Corporation to a controlling interest  of 33.4%.
  • 1997: Full size 4-door SUV Ford Expedition  introduced replace the Ford Bronco .Mercury Mountaineer  introduced. Redesigned Ford Escort and Mercury Tracer also introduced. Ford Aerostar  production ends, along with Ford Probe , Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, Mazda MX-6, and Ford Aspire , without immediate replacement. Sculpted redesign of Ford's top-selling F-150 pickup, overcomes controversy to set sales records.
  • 1998: Lincoln Navigator creates domestic luxury SUV class. Mark VIII is in its final year, introduces HID-headlamps, midway through model year 1996.
  • 1998: The Focus  replaces the aging Escort in Europe and quickly becomes one of the best-selling cars of the segment. Is launched in North America for the 2000 model year.
  • 1999: Ford acquires Volvo car division  from Volvo . Bill Ford  becomes Chairman of the Board, replacing Jacques Nasser . A smaller sporty Mercury Cougar  is reintroduced with front-wheel drive. Jaguar Racing  Formula One  team is formed, with Jackie Stewart  at the helm. Ford splits its full-sized pick-ups into two distinct models (the first to do so) with the introduction of the Ford F-Series Super Duty (F-250 - F-550). Ford Excursion (based on Super Duty) is introduced, and has the distinction of being the largest SUV sold anywhere.
  • 2000: Ford purchases Land Rover  brand from BMW . Lincoln LS  and Jaguar S-Type  are introduced, along with a refreshed Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable. The Lincoln LS becomes the 2000 Motor Trend Car of the Year . Escort is discontinued in Europe. Third generation Transit platform is launched in Europe.
  • 2001: Retro-styled Ford Thunderbird  is introduced, based on the Lincoln LS/Jaguar S-Type DEW98  platform, and is also named Motor Trend Car of the Year for 2002.
  • 2002: Fifth-generation Fiesta is launched by Ford of Europe.
  • 2002: Lincoln Continental  is discontinued after a roughly fifty-year run. Jaguar X-Type  is introduced (first AWD Jaguar). Escort van production ends in Europe, marking the end of the Escort name after a 24-year production run. Ford Transit Connect  production begins at Ford-Otosan  in Turkey .
  • 2003: Ford Motor Company's 100th Anniversary. The Ford GT  is released, along with limited Centennial editions of some Ford vehicles.
  • 2004: Jaguar Racing  team sold to Red Bull GmbH . Ranger  sales decline, losing the title as top-selling compact pickup. The Ford Escape Hybrid , the first gasoline-electric hybrid  SUV, is introduced. Major redesign of the Ford F-150 and introduction of the Lincoln Mark LT . Ford Freestar  and Mercury Monterey  minivans are introduced, replacing the Ford Windstar  and Mercury Villager .
  • 2005: Ford Mustang  redesigned with retro styling reminiscent of the 1960s models. The Ford Five Hundred , Mercury Montego , and Ford Freestyle  are introduced. Mercury Sable  production ends, and Ford Taurus  production is limited to rental car, taxi, and other fleet sales.
  • 2006: Ford Taurus  ends production after a 20-year run. Ford Fusion , Mercury Milan , and Lincoln Zephyr  introduced. Ford announces major restructuring program The Way Forward , which includes plans to shut unprofitable factories. Bill Ford  steps down as CEO, remains as Executive Chairman. Alan Mulally  elected President and CEO. Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans are discontinued without replacement. Ford mortgages all assets to raise $23.4 billion cash in secured credit lines, in order to finance product development during restructuring through 2009.[42]  According to J. D. Power and Associates  quality surveys, the Ford Fusion  is rated higher in quality than its chief rivals, the Toyota Camry  and Honda Accord .[citation needed ]
  • 2007: Ford sells Aston Martin  to a British consortium led by Prodrive  chairman David Richards,[citation needed ] and announces plans to sell Jaguar  and Land Rover . Ford reports losses of $12.7 billion for 2006. Ford Edge  and Lincoln MKX  introduced. The Lincoln Zephyr is replaced with the Lincoln MKZ . A redesigned Ford Expedition  (including the longer wheelbase "EL" version) and Lincoln Navigator  are introduced. Ford unveils the Ford Interceptor  and Lincoln MKR  concept cars, and a pre-production Lincoln MKS  is introduced. The Ford Five Hundred , Ford Freestyle  and Mercury Montego  nameplates are dropped and replaced with the previously retired Ford Taurus , Ford Taurus X , and Mercury Sable  nameplates.[49]
  • 2008: Ford sells Jaguar  and Land Rover  to Tata Motors .
  • 2008: Ford of Europe launches sixth-generation Fiesta, based on the Verve concept car.[50]
Sources:
  • General Timeline (through 2002): Ford Motor Company 2002 Annual Report
  • Production figures: U.S. Automobile Production Figures
  • 2009 Ford announces that it will leverage more of its European line-up for the North American market. The Turkish-built Transit Connect  compact panel van is the first exponent of this strategy, followed by the sixth-generation Ford Fiesta  subcompact.
  • 2010 Ford sells Volvo Cars  to Geely Automobile. Third generation Ford Focus  unveiled - as with the first generation car, it will return to using a single platform for all markets - will be released in North America as a 2012 model.
  • 2011: Mercury production ends; the last vehicle is a Grand Marquis. Lincoln Town Car  is discontinued. Ford Focus Electric  unveiled. Ford announces that they will sell 8 million vehicles globally by 2015.
  • 2011: Ford Ranger  discontinued for North America; redesigned global version  launched.
  • 2012: Fourth generation Mondeo/Fusion previewed at the Detroit Motor Show, thus reuniting Ford's mid-size platform for Europe and North America for the first time since the CDW27 1st gen Mondeo/Contour/Mystique of 1994. Ford Crown Victoria, sold only for export in 2012, is discontinued.
  • 2013: Fourth generation Transit/Tourneo launched, along with the second generation Transit Connect and the refreshed Fiesta is revealed.
  • 2014: The Ford Mustang celebrates 50 years of production with the launch of its sixth generation . The 2015 F-150  is launched, featuring an aluminum-intensive body design.
  • 2018: The 10 millionth Ford Mustang (the top-ranking sports car in America) "gallops off the assembly line."[51]

Criticism [ edit ] Further information: Firestone and Ford tire controversy , The Battle of the Overpass , and Ringwood Mines landfill site

Throughout its history, the company has faced a wide range of criticisms. Some have accused the early Fordist  model of production of being exploitative, and Ford has been criticized as being willing to collaborate with dictatorships  or hire mobs to intimidate union leaders and increase their profits through unethical means.

Ford refused to allow collective bargaining  until 1941, with the Ford Service Department being set up as an internal security, intimidation, and espionage unit within the company, and quickly gained a reputation of using violence against union organizers and sympathizers.[52] [53]

Ford was also criticized for tread separation and tire disintegration of many Firestone  tires installed on Ford Explorers , Mercury Mountaineers , and Mazda Navajos , which caused many crashes during the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). It is estimated that over 250 deaths and more than 3,000 serious injuries resulted from these failures. Although Firestone  received most of the blame, some blame fell on Ford, which advised customers to under-inflate the tires in order to reduce the risk of vehicle rollovers.

Nazi collaboration [ edit ] Further information: Henry Ford

In 1940, at a time when the German division had begun to use slave labor, Ford-Werke was still under the control of Dearborn.[25]  After Pearl Harbor, Ford lost control of its division in Germany, and all the Ford facilities in Germany came under the full control of the Nazi government. In 1943 the Company wrote off all its holdings in Germany as a total loss, and never reclaimed them after the war.[54]  The German Ford  company used slave labor  in Cologne  between 1940 and 1945 and produced military vehicles such as trucks, planes, and ships.[25]  Many of these allegations were made in a series of United States lawsuits in 1998. The lawsuit was dismissed in 1999 because the judge concluded "the issues ... concerned international treaties between nations and foreign policy and were thus in the realm of the executive branch."[55] [56]

Defenders of the company argue that the Ford German division, Fordwerke , had been taken over by the Nazi government after it rose to power, claiming that it was not under the company's control. Although Ford's initial motivations were anti-war, the plants in Allied countries were heavily involved in the Allied war effort after the outbreak of war.[56]

Argentine "Dirty War" [ edit ] Further information: Dirty War

Ford's Argentine subsidiary  was accused of collaborating with the Argentine  1976–1983 military dictatorship, actively helping in the political repression of intellectuals and dissidents that was pursued by said government. No result was proven and the company denied the allegations.

In a lawsuit initiated in 1996 by relatives of some of the estimated 600 Spanish citizens who disappeared in Argentina during the "Dirty War ", evidence was presented to support the allegation that much of this repression was directed by Ford and the other major industrial firms. According to a 5,000-page report, Ford executives drew up lists of "subversive" workers and handed them over to the military task-forces which were allowed to operate within the factories. These groups allegedly kidnapped, tortured and murdered workers—at times allegedly within the plants themselves. The company denied the allegations.

In a second trial, a report brought by the CTA , and the testimonies of former Ford workers themselves, claimed that the company's Argentine factory was used between 1976 and 1978 as a detention center, and that management allowed the military to set up its own bunker inside the plant. The company denied the allegations.[57] [58] [59]

Ford Pinto [ edit ] Further information: Ford Pinto Fuel System

In September 1971 the Ford Motor Company launched the Pinto for the North American market. The car's fuel tank integrity is alleged to have been substandard for the time, making the car inordinately susceptible to fuel tank ruptures in rear impact collisions. An article published in Mother Jones  contributed to a public controversy by saying that Ford knowingly released a design that would result in hundreds of deaths as well as calculating that it was cheaper to fight injury claims in court than make changes to the Pinto's fuel system.[60] [61]  Public outcry related to the controversy and the Mother Jones article created political pressure on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration  which initialed an investigation. The result of the investigation was the issuing a determination that the Pinto and related Mercury Bobcat were defective. This resulted in Ford recalling 1.5 million Pintos and Bobcats, the largest automotive recall to date.[62] [63]  Two notable legal cases, Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company and State of Indiana v. Ford Motor Company are the result of accident related fuel system fires. The Grimshaw jury awarded the plaintiffs $127 million, the largest product liability  and negligence  award in history at that time; the trial judge reduced the jury award to $6 million.[61]  Indiana v. Ford  was the first time a corporation indicted on criminal charges for a defective product, the Ford Pinto , and the first corporation charged with reckless homicide. The case resulted in a not guilty verdict.[62]  Subsequent research has discredited early fatality figures and indicate the Pinto's overall fire safety record was typical for subcompacts of the time.[61]

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