Henry Ford

Biography:

Henry Ford was born in 1863 on a farm near Dearborn - suburb of Detroit, Michigan (USA). May 5, 1876, Henry Ford, the son of William and Mary Ford Litogot saw a locomotive. God's ways are mysterious: a meeting with Ford locomotive turned the world. Educated in the school, which consisted of only one room, Henry Ford was barely able to read school reading books, at the age of 15 years has also left formal education. All classes a credit school - from first to eighth - were engaged together in the same room. In the summer, when the teacher was harrowing, place the board his wife occupied. But Henry Ford was a brilliant ace at math and loved cars. Henry Ford went on to Carnegie and finished 8 grades.

Business Story:


At 16, Henry Ford came to Detroit to be hired for a job as a student engineer. From there, he was fired less than a week. Do not hesitate, Henry Ford did in the workshop - fired. Next was the repair shop ship engines - fired. Finally, Henry Ford got a job as a mechanic in the Electricity Company of Thomas Alva Edison, earning $ 45 a month, but he lived not only on the money. Henry Ford's father was a farmer, and left him a plot of 40 acres, on which Henry Ford built a sawmill. But Henry Ford's main hobby was designing a moving self-propelled wheelchair.

In June 1893 in a brick shed behind the duplex, where Henry Ford lived with his wife Clara, Henry Ford completed the construction of its first experimental car. The inventor spent two days without sleep or rest, and two in the morning on June 4 came to inform his wife that the car is ready and he's going to try it. Named "Quadricycle" and weighing only five hundred pounds, the car moves on four bicycle tires.

Beginning 

On his own service, Mr. Henry Ford succeeded in office mechanics. Three years later, the entrepreneur Henry Ford successfully demonstrated the second prototype, having made a circular trip from Detroit to Pontiac. In 1901, 15 thousand dollars, collected dozens of shareholders, Henry Ford created his first business - "Detroyskuyu car company."

The company has held for two years. During this time, Henry Ford built about 20 cars, as chief engineer. But he could not control or sale of any type of manufactured cars. This is Henry Ford did not like and he returned to his small shop.

Henry Ford was forty years old, and he has not succeeded. Among his friends was a Malcolmson - coal dealer, supplying coal to the electric company when Henry Ford worked there. After a brilliant victory Oldfilda Burney in 1903, he declared himself an adherent of the faith and of Ford, Henry Ford offered to organize a "Ford Motor Company" and to share the fifty-one percent of its shares, which would allow them control over the company.

Thus, in 1903, "Ford Motor Company" started with a capital of 28 thousand dollars and consisted of a dozen workers and a workshop area of ​​50 x 250 feet, which Henry Ford rented a carpenter - one of its shareholders for $ 75 a month. Soon the number of workers increased from 12 to 300 people.

In its first year, "Ford Motor Company" was saved from the sale of cars and a half million dollars. Almost four hundred thousand dollars were profitable. The first vehicle, known as the Model A, was sold for $ 850. And Henry Ford wanted to reduce the price in 1904 to sell more cars.

Expansion of production

The fall of 1907 in the U.S. broke a new crisis, which filled Detroit unemployed and starving. Sale of Ford cars decreased, but not much, because the demand for them is growing. In 1908, Henry Ford decided to make his idea a cheap car production for the mass buyer. One day, without warning its sales department, he announced that the Model A, B, C, F, N, R, S and K forever abolished. Henceforth, the only Ford model would be "Model T". Henry Ford finished his post with the famous words: "Every customer can buy a car of any color, as long as that color is black." The cost of "Model T" was $ 825, which has an average worker can afford. In the first year of production, Henry Ford sold over ten thousand models of T, bringing more than nine million dollars in the company.

In early 1912 Ford's automobile company produced more than two hundred cars a day. The company manufactures its own casings, bridges, and other important auto parts.

The following year, Henry Ford bought out the brothers Horace and John Dodge and began producing their own engines, as well as complete chassis. Now, Henry Ford was not only preparing the car, but by all means of production. Have become super-rich, Henry Ford was about to become famous.

New Horizons

Henry Ford was approaching its goal - two million cars a year. Delivering coal from its own mines in West Virginia, on its own railroad, transporting ore from its own mines in Michigan on their own ships, it is the world industrial miracle. About 45 thousand different machines now work by making fordovskie cars for sixty plants scattered around the United States. Henry Ford's own ships transported parts for assembly plants twenty-eight foreign countries.

By the end of the twenties the inventor had serious cause for concern. After nearly two decades of dominance in the automotive business, unprecedented in the history of every key industry, Henry Ford was forced to admit that Sloan and his company "General Motors" is going to eat his lunch. (The company "General Motors" was organized by William C. Durant in 1916 by combining the "Buick", "Cadillac", "Chevrolet", "Pontiac" and "Oldsmobile").

By 1921, Henry Ford sold cars is 13 times more than the "General Motors" - their cheapest "Chevrolet" (a direct competitor of "Model T"). But by the end of the twenties ratio changed in favor of Sloan: car buyers began to appreciate the comfort, style and technical innovations. Henry Ford also continues to offer a basic car built for rough roads turn of the century. Meanwhile, the "Chevrolet" was re-equipped and redesigned. 

Conclusion:



Then came the 40s. Henry Ford, who for many years served as president he owned car company, much older. In the chair Vice President sat his only son, Edsel, whose father was preparing to advance the management of your business.

The old man became more and more strange. He began to collect Titian - someone told him that the artist created masterpieces in 99 years, and Henry I was inspired by this example: he wanted to celebrate the centenary, but fate did not want to give Ford Sr. last favor. He died April 7, 1947 at the age of 84.

... Today, Ford continued to make money. U.S. official statistics show: net income from each of the Fords nearly 200,000 workers in 48 plants is $ 1.47 per hour.