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1908 Ford Model T advertisement. The Model T was designed by Childe Harold Wills, and Hungarian immigrants Joseph A. Galamb (main engineer) [21] [35] and Eugene Farkas. [36] Henry Love, C. J. Smith, Gus Degner and Peter E. Martin were also part of the team, [37] as were Galamb's fellow Hungarian immigrants Gyula Hartenberger and Károly Balogh ...
Henry Ford riding in a Model N in front of the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, c. 1906. Two Model S styles were produced, a runabout and a roadster. The S runabout first appeared late in the 1907 model year, and was similar to the Model R, selling for $50 less than the R, at $700.
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Springwells Township, Michigan. [5] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, to a family that had emigrated from Somerset, England in the 16th century. [6]
Cutaway internal view of the Ford Model T engine. [6] The T engine was an inline-four, with all four cylinders cast into one engine block. Such a monobloc design was an uncommon practice when T production started in 1908. It lent itself to mass production, showing the Ford company's prescient focus on design for manufacturability.
Henry Ford, Detroit coal merchant Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors formed the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903, to assemble automobiles. [1]: 10–11 [2] The company's first car model, the original Ford Model A, began to be assembled that same month at the Ford Mack Avenue Plant, a rented wagon manufacturing shop in Detroit, Michigan.
A 1908-09 Model T advertisement. Early advertising for the Model T pointed out the appealing appearance and customization of the car which offered a variety of functionality for buyers.
The Henry Ford Company was an automobile manufacturer active from 1901 to 1902. ... which it introduced in 1908. It proved wildly successful, and by 1914 Ford had ...
1909 Ford Model T Ocean-to-Ocean race winner The 1909 Model T Ford race winner on display at the California Automobile Museum The pace car that established the official route was a Thomas Flyer, the winner of the 1908 New York to Paris Race Henry Ford widely publicized his victory