Henry Ford’s DifficultiesWhile the automobile industry was expanding so rapidly and so profitably, Ford and General Motors were going through a period of internal strife and personal difficulties. Ford had two kinds of trouble that which he brought upon himself and that which came to him chiefly from the Dodges. Ford’s self-created problems, which were more spectacular [...]  |
The Ford againWhile the widening automobile market and the small capital required to carry on an automobile business were bringing large numbers of new companies into the motorcar field, the Ford Motor Company was getting a great deal more than its share in the expanded market and establishing itself as the unquestioned leader in volume of sales. [...] |
The Ford Motor CompanyThe fourth of the major automobile companies to get under way in the Detroit area was the Ford Motor Company, which was organized in June, 1903. The Ford Company is a good example of the importance of timing. The 1903 Ford was a success from its beginning, yet by 1903 Ford had been working on [...] |
Beginnings in DetroitIn 1900, there were 76,000,000 people in the United States, of whom less than 4,000 owned automobiles. Here was the greatest potential market that any manufacturer could desire. For three hundred years the population of the United States had been increasing. Now, at the beginning of the fourth century of North American civilization, the automobile [...] |
