Start of mass production By the end of 1913, Ford Motor company Compagnie produced a half of all cars in the United States. To meet demand, Ford started mass production in the factory. He thought that if each employee stays in one place with a precisely defined task, the car will be formed much faster if moving from department to department and thus would save many hours of work invested. The conveyor belt (1913) To test this theory, in the summer of 1913 with a rope and winch pulling the chassis on the floor of the factory in Highland Park, Michigan. Modern mass production was born! Model T was coming off the assembly line every 10 seconds of every working day. Henry Ford has stirred the world on January 5, 1914, announcing a minimum wage of $ 5 a day - more than double the current minimum wage. Ford reasoned that with the now possible large production of cheaper cars, can no longer sell them and if workers can buy. His decision to work day of eight hours pay $ 5 considered the best move he ever made. I can not find a production method that will allow high wages, he said. If you reduce wages, you just reduce the number of its customers. Model T started a rural revolution. Day for $ 5 and a philosophy that is behind it, they started a social revolution. The conveyor belt started the industrial revolution. In its 19 years of production, the Model T has experienced manufacture and sale 15007.033 cars in the United States. Ford Motor Company Compagnie firmly established itself as a gigantic industrial complex that has spread around the world. During these years of intensive expansion, the company has experienced: moving to larger plant in Highland Park, Michigan in (1910) opening of the first branch in Kansas City, Missouri in (1911) the establishment of new plants in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Long Island City and Buffalo, to keeping pace with demand for vehicles (1913) start of production of trucks and tractors (1917) start of construction of a huge complex of Rhodes in Dearborn, Michigan (1917) mass production of the famous submarine from the First World War Eagle bouts (1918) the transition to full ownership of Henry Ford and his son Edsel, who succeeded his father as president (1919) purchasing company Lincoln Motor Company (1922) the first production of Fords 196 aircraft with three engines used by the first US commercial airline (1925) By 1927, the time was passed Model T. Improved but basically unchanged for so many years, he was losing ground against the new, more powerful engines offered by the competition. 31 May, Ford plants across the country were closed for 6 months to redesign the new Model A. Model A was the cars improved in every respect. More than 4500.000 cars in several varieties and colors, the vehicle national roads between 1927 and 1931. However, the Model A was finally thrown out due to the demand for more luxurious and more powerful cars. Ford Motor Company Kompany was ready for it its novelty - the first V-8 - which was presented to the public on April 1, 1932. Ford was the first company in history to successfully produce V-8 in one piece. Experts are assured that Ford is not possible. Many years elapsed before Fords competitors learned how to produce reliable V-eighth Meanwhile, Fords car and its powerful engine became favorites of Americans conscious of sports performance. Passenger car production was halted abruptly in 1942 when the company was forced to put all their capacities available to war production. Initiated by Edsel Ford, the great wartime program produced 8,600 B-24 Liberator bomber with four engines, 57,000 aircraft engines and more than 250,000 tanks, anti-tank combat vehicles and other military equipment in less than three years.
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