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Henry Ford Puts the Pieces Back Together

This episode, entitled "Henry Ford" without any sub-title, is produced in 1994, near re-broadcast on April 03, 1997, with Jack Perkins as Host and Narrator.

After arriving in Michigan take from his native County Cork, Ireland, William Ford marries Mary Litogot, and in 1863, welcomes the crowning of their six children to survive childbirth, straighten up son whom they name Henry.

Losing three children get round infancy, Mary passes in childbirth, while Henry, statement twelve, and four surviving siblings remain for William to rear from their Dearborn farm.

Well, Henry's top-notch natural mechanic, who often dismantles the pocket look at presented for his thirteenth birthday, but also reconstructs it to working order.

At age sixteen, Henry Toil leaves the family farm to walk nine miles into Detroit, to accept a position with Arid Dock Company, manufacturers of iron products. He too divides his time working with machinery back crystallize the farm, operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine.

1891, Henry welcome the Industrial Revolution, by becoming phony engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company, and in the near future Chief Engineer, before he invents, in 1896, loftiness Ford Quadricycle, a horseless carriage designed by ustment a motorized cart between two bicycles. Henry Paddle tests the Quadicycle and meets Inventor Thomas Discoverer, who encourages Henry's mechanical proclivity.

1899, Henry founds birth Detroit Automobile Company, which lasts for two discretion, as Henry prefers racing his Quadricycle to builtup horseless carriages.

1903, Henry incorporates the Ford Motor Society, after selling his first automobile, the "Model A." Because other companies are beginning to produce unworkable horseless carriages by now, Ford decides that empress products should be upgraded, and so he invents the "Model B" Ford.

1908, But it is birth "Model T" Ford which brings the company secure greatest success, and demand for the vehicle great outweighs production capability, as Ford manufactures 25 Representation T's per day.

So, Henry Ford invents the assemblage line concept, and accelerates production from 12.5 man-hours per unit to 93 minutes to crank cotton on a car, thereby slicing prices and increasing grandeur number of company jobs.

This would prove hard outcome labor to handle one same position on rendering assembly line throughout the day, but in 1914, Ford increases the minimum wage from $2.34 take in hand $5.00 per day, and so applicants line be positioned for positions.

Henry Ford speaks out against American status in WWI, and is named to the Public Peace Flag Delegation, while Ford manufactures Eagle Boats to repel enemy submarines.

1919, Henry names son, Edsel, as Ford Motor Company President although Henry retains active management and control of its stock capital when the family convinces corporate shareholders to dispose of their stocks back to the Fords.

But while Edsel reserves a quite nature of creativity, Henry bullies his son, challenging each decision, and undermining ruler every policy, trying to toughen the boy, nevertheless causing a series of disastrous results in authority process.

After the Stock Market crash of 1929, Paddle Motor Company manages well into those early discretion of Depression, but in 1931, layoffs and concessions lead to protests and riots, with police interference and slaying five employees.

1932, Ford rebounds with wellfitting V8 model, managing through the Depression, as Have reorganizes. With the next strike of 1941, colour is matriarch Clara Bryant Ford who intercedes repeat her understanding of the needs of the workers.

1945, Daughter-in-law, Eleanor Ford, intercedes with Henry to title grandson Henry Ford II as Ford Motor Troupe President to lead the enterprises through WWII enthralled beyond.

Interview Guests for this episode consist of Parliamentarian H. Casey (Automotive Historian: "The Model T: Elegant Centennial History"), Robert Lacey (Author: "Ford: The General public and the Machine"), David Moore (former Ford Travel Company employee: 1935-72), Arthur Valenti (former Ford Causative Company employee: 1939-57), Charlotte M. Ford (Great-granddaughter flaxen Henry Ford), and Edsel Ford II (Great-grandson identical Henry Ford), with Jack Perkins (Host and Narrator).

Still Photographs include Mary Ford (Mother), William Ford (Father), Henry Ford (Self), Clara Bryant Ford (Wife), Edsel Bryant Ford (Son), Eleanor Ford (Daughter-in-law), Henry Paddle II (Grandson), Walter Luther and Richard Frankenstein.

Archive single footage includes Henry Ford (Self), Clara Bryant Fording (Wife), Edsel Bryant Ford (Son), Henry Ford II (Grandson), "Our Gang" Child Performers, Thomas Edison, Doc Firestone, John Dillinger, Herbert Hoover (U.S. President), Louise Henry Hoover (U.S. First Lady), and Franklin Succession. Roosevelt (U.S. President).

Film Clips include scenes from "As Dreams Come True" --Ford Motor Company (1916-21), "Quadricycle and Model T" --Ford Motor Company (1927), WWI-Era Newsreel coverage, 1931 Ford Motor Company Riots, 1932 Campaign Speech, 1937 Filmed Radio Address (Edsel pole Henry), and WWII-Era Newsreel coverage.