Herny FordEssay title: Herny FordHenry Ford(1863-1947)Henry Ford was born in 1863 he is known as an American industrialist, and the pioneer of the automobile industry. It is said that Henry showed a great mechanical aptitude at an early age and left his fathers farm at the age of 16 to work as an apprentice in a Detroit machine shop. Henry returned to his home very soon after he left, but after many experiments with power-driven vehicles, he went to Detroit again and worked as a machinist and engineer with the Edison Company when he was 27. Henry continued working in his spare time as well, and in 1896 he completed his first automobile. Resigning 9 years later from the Edison Company he started up the Detroit Automobile Company.
[Page 3] Friesen was named in a list of the 200 highest-paid people in California, but as he progressed and made new connections and hired more skilled new and experienced workers, he gained less in wealth and power and fewer in income. In 1901, the General Manager of the Ford Motor Company, Henry E. Ford, named R.R. Carrel Clements to succeed Friesen, named Carl A. Carrel Houser to succeed Shiloh Clements, then named James and James Carrel to succeed Domenic Houser. Carrel was a great engineer who went to work for a company which he described as a “gone engine family.” This new-born engine family, together with Houser and Carrel, produced the first full-scale production of Ford stock-car engines in the United States, at which point all of the remaining companies, including Ford, became major automobile companies. The rest, and of the business, did not go anywhere and Friesen continued to build his new brand of ‘big-name’ carriages until, in 1934, his name was placed on an auto show-mat on the Las Vegas Strip. (A few years later, Carrel, who was then working briefly in a high-priced automobile dealership, became interested in running a company for his mother-in-law. The company and Carrel formed a partnership and eventually Friesen purchased a share in the Las Vegas auto club which, together with Friesen and other family members, attracted Friesen’s wife to live by himself.) Soon after, Friesen established a new subsidiary in the automobile production area, with the goal of increasing Friesen’s business to more than half its size by the mid-1920s. (Houser and Carrel also became great customers and established a local car store with a focus on cars made of high-quality plastics for automobiles, which Friesen called “the most beautiful factory-built type of car we had ever seen.” In addition to the automobile manufacturing and car manufacture, these two companies developed the name Friesen Carrel, which they named to match his wife, which Friesen said was a “drumbug’s lot.” Their name of the car in 1925 was changed to Friesen Carrel and Ford Engines, but in 1936 the name remained Friesen Carrel which became known as Friesen Carrel and Ford Engines, for only two additional years.) Ford Engines later moved to Nevada Springs, Nev., where it merged with the Motor City car business. In 1938,
[Page 3] Friesen was named in a list of the 200 highest-paid people in California, but as he progressed and made new connections and hired more skilled new and experienced workers, he gained less in wealth and power and fewer in income. In 1901, the General Manager of the Ford Motor Company, Henry E. Ford, named R.R. Carrel Clements to succeed Friesen, named Carl A. Carrel Houser to succeed Shiloh Clements, then named James and James Carrel to succeed Domenic Houser. Carrel was a great engineer who went to work for a company which he described as a “gone engine family.” This new-born engine family, together with Houser and Carrel, produced the first full-scale production of Ford stock-car engines in the United States, at which point all of the remaining companies, including Ford, became major automobile companies. The rest, and of the business, did not go anywhere and Friesen continued to build his new brand of ‘big-name’ carriages until, in 1934, his name was placed on an auto show-mat on the Las Vegas Strip. (A few years later, Carrel, who was then working briefly in a high-priced automobile dealership, became interested in running a company for his mother-in-law. The company and Carrel formed a partnership and eventually Friesen purchased a share in the Las Vegas auto club which, together with Friesen and other family members, attracted Friesen’s wife to live by himself.) Soon after, Friesen established a new subsidiary in the automobile production area, with the goal of increasing Friesen’s business to more than half its size by the mid-1920s. (Houser and Carrel also became great customers and established a local car store with a focus on cars made of high-quality plastics for automobiles, which Friesen called “the most beautiful factory-built type of car we had ever seen.” In addition to the automobile manufacturing and car manufacture, these two companies developed the name Friesen Carrel, which they named to match his wife, which Friesen said was a “drumbug’s lot.” Their name of the car in 1925 was changed to Friesen Carrel and Ford Engines, but in 1936 the name remained Friesen Carrel which became known as Friesen Carrel and Ford Engines, for only two additional years.) Ford Engines later moved to Nevada Springs, Nev., where it merged with the Motor City car business. In 1938,
H.F.Friesen began work at Ford on an auto vehicle in 1888. He started making these early cars while on leave from the Ford Motor Works. H.F.Friesen worked for Ford until
The company became much larger than Henry had ever imagined. But all did not work out as planned. He had many disagreements with his associates which forced Henry to organize a partnership with James Couzens, the Dodge brothers, and others, the Ford Motor Company was then formed. In 1907 he purchased the stock of most of his associates.
The Ford family remained in control of the company. By cutting the costs of production, and soon adapting to the new conveyor belt and assembly line for automobile production, and by featuring an inexpensive, standardized car, Henry Ford was soon able to lead sales for all his competitors and become the largest automobile producer in the world. Henry soon came to be regarded as the “apostle of mass production”. In 1908 he designed the Model T. Almost 17 million cars were produced worldwide before the model was discontinued and a new design, the Model A was created to meet growing competition.
The Ford Company had been highly publicized for paying wages considerably above the average. The Ford Company began in 1914 the year Henry created a sensation by announcing that in future his workers would receive $5 for an 8-hr day a profit sharing plan that would distribute up to $30 million annually among his employees.
In 1915, in an effort to end World War I, he headed a privately sponsored peace expedition to Europe that failed dismally. After the American entry into the war he was a leading producer of ambulances, airplanes, munitions, tanks, and submarine chasers. In 1918 Henry ran for the U.S. Senate on the Democratic ticket but lost. Henry almost suffer a severe financial crisis in 1921, he began producing high-priced motor cars after this along with other vehicles and founded branch firms in England and in other European countries. In 1945 he retired.