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Interesting Facts About Henry Ford

October 9th, 2012 Autos Spill Guy

This is a list of 15 very interesting and intriguing facts about the American industrialist Henry Ford. I hope you enjoy the facts!

15. Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

14. Built and drove race cars early in his career to demonstrate that his engineering designs produced reliable vehicles

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13. Born July 30, 1863 in Greenfield Township, now Dearborn, Michigan.

12. One of America’s foremost industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile.

11. Although Ford did not invent the automobile, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy.

10. Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry.

9. Ford grew up on a farm and might easily have remained in agriculture. But something stronger pulled at Ford’s imagination: mechanics, machinery, understanding how things worked and what new possibilities lay in store.

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8. As a young boy, he took apart everything he got his hands on. He quickly became known around the neighborhood for fixing people’s watches.

7. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with “Fordism”: mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers.

6. Henry Ford’s parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s.

5. He ran for the US Senate in 1918, and lost.

4. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents.

3. Simple to drive and cheap to repair, half of all cars in America in 1918 were Model T’s.

2. Built Village Industries, small factories in rural Michigan, where people could work and farm during different seasons, thereby bridging the urban and rural experience

1. He died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estate. A public viewing was held at Greenfield Village where up to 5,000 people per hour filed past the casket. Funeral services were held in Detroit’s Cathedral Church of St. Paul and he was buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.