How Did Henry Ford Manufacture 20 Million Automobiles in Less Than 3 Decades?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2024
- In this video, I give a high level overview on how Henry Ford sold 20,000,000 vehicles and how he marketed the 20 Millionth Ford, a 1931 Slant Window Town Car. From the humble beginnings of the Ford Motor Company on Mack street, to the Piquette Plant, and to the eventual moving assembly line at the River Rouge Plant, Ford sold 20 Million vehicles in just under 3 decades.
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Thank you for the great history lesson about Ford & Son. This should be shown in every high school auto shop class!
Glad you liked it!
Totally amazing to build that many cars, with out using computers! They sure had their act together!
A very well oiled machine!
I really enjoyed your video! Keep Them. coming please.
More to come! Thanks for watching!
Hi Ken, thanks for putting this video together! Great film footage of the various factory production! It's quiet an era before unions, the working conditions must have been very demanding! Here's to the all the workers behind his success!
Glad you enjoyed it. It is quite amazing at how fast 20,000,000 cars were assembled and put out across the globe.
Thanks for the history lesson, wish someone would build an affordable today.
Isn't that the truth!
Excelente vídeo.🎉From Brasil
Thanks for watching!
Love your excellent summarization. The automobiles of the early 1900s actually saved the larger American (and some European) cities which were then polluted with unfathomable amounts of horse excrement and urine. A horse working in a city at that time had a rather short and hard life... with dead horses spreading disease and flies. Also, the Model T could be quickly assembled because it only had a little more than three thousand parts (separating every nut and bolt, etc.). The Model A was somewhat more complex with around five thousand parts. A new car only lasted then approximately seven to 10 years due to lack of corrosion protection and bad roads. As beautifully styled that is the Model A, the 1928/1929 Plymouth had superior engineering ...with the Plymouth Division increasing production every year until the 1938 Recession. However, annual sales of the Ford after the Model A (1932 to WWII) drastically declined due to competition (mainly from Chevrolet and Plymouth) and the Great Depression.
Great talking point that I did not even consider. Thanks for watching and for commenting!
When Henry Ford finished the quadricycle it was too big to exit through the shop door so they dismantled the wall around the door frame. That extrication is still on display at Greenfield Village.
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!
Just think, at one point they were building the cars faster than the paint could dry!!
I know right!?!? It's crazy to even think about it from that very perspective. Just the pure timing of everything from a hand sewn interior, to a precision built engine without the use of a torque wrench, to glass being manufactured, to hand pinstriping on either side of the car; the list is endless really.
I wonder if you could have put the parts in boxes and ship them where ever then put them together
Great point! I think some things did ship and then assembled in assembly plants.
@kensmithgallery4432 I think some where in the process they had several cars in a warehouse disassembled them mixed the parts up and then reassembled them and drove them away I could be wrong and if I am I apologize before hand
People forget the reason why he developed the assembly line like he did is because he went to a Chicago slaughterhouse and saw how that worked
Glad you brought it up!