Red Cross Workers with a Ford Military Ambulance at the Highland Park Plant, 1918
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Ford Motor Company donated $500,000 to the Red Cross early in World War I. The humanitarian organization used the money to purchase nearly 1,000 Ford vehicles, including 107 ambulances, for wartime use. Ford produced another 5,745 ambulances during the war for the Allied Powers. Ford designed the vehicles in consultation with the U.S. Surgeon General's Office and frontline ambulance drivers.
Ford Motor Company donated $500,000 to the Red Cross early in World War I. The humanitarian organization used the money to purchase nearly 1,000 Ford vehicles, including 107 ambulances, for wartime use. Ford produced another 5,745 ambulances during the war for the Allied Powers. Ford designed the vehicles in consultation with the U.S. Surgeon General's Office and frontline ambulance drivers.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
17 July 1918
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.22685
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.5 in
Width: 11 in
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