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- Minute Book from Meetings of the Henry Ford Trade School Trustees, 1916-1929 -
- 1916-1929
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Minute Book from Meetings of the Henry Ford Trade School Trustees, 1916-1929
- Articles of Association for Henry Ford Trade School, August 30, 1916 - Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.
- August 30, 1916
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Articles of Association for Henry Ford Trade School, August 30, 1916
Boys who attended the Henry Ford Trade School learned by doing. The school, the brainchild of Henry Ford, trained teenage boys in a variety of skilled industrial trade work -- machining, metallurgy, drafting, and engine design, among others. Students created useful components for local factories in hands-on lab and shop classes. In addition to the manual training received, academic classes were required.
- Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Ford Motor Company Executives, July 1911 - Henry Ford (front row, in light-colored suit) and Edsel Ford (behind and to the left of Henry Ford) posed with Ford Motor Company executives for this photo in July 1911. The company produced nearly 35,000 Model T automobiles that year, with prices ranging from $680 to $1,200.
- July 01, 1911
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Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Ford Motor Company Executives, July 1911
Henry Ford (front row, in light-colored suit) and Edsel Ford (behind and to the left of Henry Ford) posed with Ford Motor Company executives for this photo in July 1911. The company produced nearly 35,000 Model T automobiles that year, with prices ranging from $680 to $1,200.
- Ford Motor Company Organization Chart, November 1, 1919 - Organizational charts and corporate hierarchies weren't strictly followed or enforced in Ford Motor Company's first decades -- largely because of founder Henry Ford's indifference to them. But this chart, issued in November 1919, illustrates a formal chain of command from president Edsel Ford down through company officers, superintendents, managers, and department heads.
- November 01, 1919
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Ford Motor Company Organization Chart, November 1, 1919
Organizational charts and corporate hierarchies weren't strictly followed or enforced in Ford Motor Company's first decades -- largely because of founder Henry Ford's indifference to them. But this chart, issued in November 1919, illustrates a formal chain of command from president Edsel Ford down through company officers, superintendents, managers, and department heads.
- Ford Motor Company Executives in Superintendent's Office at Highland Park Plant, 1914 - This photo might be titled "Busy men take a break from changing the world," because these are some of the key people who spawned the Ford Model T and mass production. Seated from left to right are Charles Sorensen, P. E. Martin, and William King. Standing, left to right are Clarence Avery, Harry Hickey, Gus Degener, and Charles Hartner. They are gathered in the office of Martin, who was in charge of Ford's massive Highland Park, Michigan, plant where Model Ts were made. Sorensen was his assistant and King was their clerk. Avery was the guiding light in the development of the moving assembly line. Degener oversaw the inspection department and had also done important work on the heat treating of metal parts, while Hartner was in charge of machine shop operations at Highland Park.
- 1914
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Ford Motor Company Executives in Superintendent's Office at Highland Park Plant, 1914
This photo might be titled "Busy men take a break from changing the world," because these are some of the key people who spawned the Ford Model T and mass production. Seated from left to right are Charles Sorensen, P. E. Martin, and William King. Standing, left to right are Clarence Avery, Harry Hickey, Gus Degener, and Charles Hartner. They are gathered in the office of Martin, who was in charge of Ford's massive Highland Park, Michigan, plant where Model Ts were made. Sorensen was his assistant and King was their clerk. Avery was the guiding light in the development of the moving assembly line. Degener oversaw the inspection department and had also done important work on the heat treating of metal parts, while Hartner was in charge of machine shop operations at Highland Park.