In this article we will present the history of the Ford T model. As you know, Ford is the precursor of the automotive industry, with Henry Ford as the initiative founder, which sought and benefited from the desire of the people to have their own car, which was unnafordable to many people at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Ford T was the first series car in history. It was manufactured in Ford factories in Detroit, Michigan, since 1908. It was the first car available to the public and this model has influenced the automotive industry, one of the most important industries worldwide.
Firstly, let’s meet the man that was Henry Ford, one of the richest businessmen in the early twentieth century. Born on July 30, 1863, Henry Ford, the child of Irish immigrants, engaged in his youth in a garage, learning about how the internal combustion engine works. Accumulating knowledge from this experience, young Ford had to open his own shop at the farm of his parents. In 1890 he worked as a mechanical engineer at Edison Company. In 1896 he completed his first design of an automobil. Resigning from the Edison Company, in 1899 he opened his own company, the Detroit Automobile Company. In 1903 Ford remained the sole owner of this company, after other shareholders withdrew from management. Ford had an ideal: to produce and sell cars accessible to everyone, even middle-income families. Thus was born the Ford T, the first production model of the global automotive industry, the model that was to occur in plants in Detroit for 19 years. Ford had to sell 15.5 million units, reaching to provide half of the world's cars production at the time. Reffering to the Enterprise level, Ford succeeded in production management and maintain the jobs. Thus, due to the development of the prodction line, Ford has managed to double the salaries of employees, concomitant reducing working hours. The different improvements. Ford Model T became the best selling car both in the United States and Europe, bringing his company to global leadership among the car selling market.
Inevitably, Ford T has become the first car of the car rental industry, John Saunders, the pioneer of the rent a car industry, who offered the Ford T model to be rented among the businessmans that were crossing his city. Alike Saunders, Walter Jacobs used in the same time the Ford T to those who where interested in renting this type of car. Walters had to sell Chicago entrepreneur, John Hertz, the company, which later became one of the largest rental car company worldwide, having a large percentage of the market nowadays.
In conclusion, note that Ford T was the first car which got to the series production, inevitably becoming the first machine used in what today we call the rent a car service. Henry Ford was the founder of manufacturer Ford, one of the companies with the biggest sales on the U.S. market in the world even today, revolutionizing technologies in series production cars.
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