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43 unusual facts about Ford Motor Company


Alberta, Michigan

In 1954, Ford Motor Company donated the town of Alberta, Michigan and 1700 acres (7 km²) of land to what is now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.

Automotive industry in Massachusetts

The Ford Motor Company opened Cambridge Assembly in 1913, and manufactured vehicles there until 1926, when it opened Somerville Assembly.

Blanquefort, Gironde

Since 1972 Blanquefort has been the location of a Ford transmission plant which occupies a 103 hectare site in the industrial zone.

Cape Mayo

It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight of December 20, 1928, and named by him for William B. Mayo of the Ford Motor Company.

Capital lending

Capital lending, like its cousin consumer finance, was started by the automobile companies Ford Motor Company and General Motors (GM) in the late 1920s, and has spread to numerous industries around the globe.

Carseland, Alberta

It boasted six grain elevators, a railway station, school, general store, barber shop and pool-room, post office, restaurant, garage and Ford car dealer, well house, lumber yard, hardware store, meat market, bank, stock yards, two churches, hotel and community centre.

Cass Community Social Services

Cass Community Social Services uses 6 million dollars a year for its programs, of that, 5% comes from the Ford Motor Company, much of the rest comes from donations.

Chennai Port

Dubbed the Detroit of Asia, Chennai is base to several international car makers, namely, Ford Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA, Daimler AG and BMW AG.

Claude Lobo

Claude Lobo (*20 August 1943, †3 June 2011) served in various design positions at Ford Motor Company over 32 years, playing a prominent role in designing Ford automobiles including the Ford Capri (Mk I), Mercury Cougar (Mk VII), Ford Ka (Mk I)

Dan Wallace

A former customs clerk with the Ford Motor Company in Cork, Wallace was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1981 and February 1982 general elections.

Engineers for a Sustainable World

From 2009 through 2011, members of ESW’s Northwestern chapter worked on a plan to install a 17 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system on the roof of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center on Northwestern’s Evanston, Illinois campus.

Essex Aluminum

Essex Aluminum Plant is a former Ford Motor Company metal casting plant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Formula Ford

They felt if they called it “Formula Ford” they could get backing from Ford itself.

George F. Le Feuvre

In 1922, in search of new opportunities, he moved to Detroit in the United States where he joined the Ford Motor Company, first as a nightwatchman.

Gerald Ciolek

In 2006, Ciolek completed his training at the Ford Motor Company and was able to turn professional and devote his career to cycling.

Grosse Isle, Quebec

One immigrant who did survive was the grandfather of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

Hillegom

Hillegom is also home to the Den Hartogh Ford Museum, which has the world's largest collection of Ford automobiles.

Holly Lynch

She has many commercials to her credit, including the Ford Bold Moves commercial where she pays for the dry cleaning of a man in the car behind hers, the State Farm Insurance commercial where she is "the girl from 4E", and the Corona commercial where she is the girl across the aisle.

Jacques Olivier

Following his defeat, Olivier established a Ford dealership in Saint-Hubert, Quebec, and soon joined the board of directors of the Corporation des concessionnaires automobiles du Grand Montréal et du Québec.

James Edward Zimmerman

Ford Motor Company, Scientific Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, 1955 – 1969

Joyce Jillson

She was the official astrologer for the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as a media consultant to the Ford Motor Company on the launch of the Ford Taurus.

Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Base

Designed by Waco aircraft and some other companies, they were manufactured by Ford Motor Company at their Kingsford, Michigan production plant in northwest Michigan by the thousands.

Margaretta Township, Erie County, Ohio

Ford Motor Company operates a manufacturing facility in Margaretta, under its Automotive Components Holdings banner.

Medical Education for South African Blacks

Major contributors included Peter Bing, Peter Kovler, George Soros, David Tabatznik Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Company, Henry Schein Inc., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Pfizer, the Starr Foundation, and USAID, among many others.

Mike Goliat

After retiring from the minors in 1961, Goliat ran a small trucking firm for several years before joining the Ford Motor Company.

Murray S. Klamkin

After this Klamkin worked at AVCO, taught at SUNY Buffalo (1962–1964), and worked on the Ford research staff (1965–1976).

Nikola Dobrečić

Among his several economic initiatives, perhaps the most famous was the construction of the Ford Motor Company factory in Bar.

Norlane, Victoria

Much of the housing was for employees at the nearby Ford Motor Company, International Harvester, Shell, Pilkington Glass, Hendersons and Pivot Phosphate factories.

P. G. Cristea

He entered the 1934 and 1935 Monte Carlo Rallies, finishing 18th and 15th driving in both races a modified Ford V8.

After these progresses, Cristea, together with Ionel Zamfirescu, a motorcycling champion, decided to modify a Ford V8 in order to attempt a top finish in the 1936 Monte Carlo Rally.

Pentosin

Pentosin products are supplied directly to many different automotive companies, including all marques of the Volkswagen Group, BMW, Daimler AG marques, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Europe and Porsche.

Pequaming, Michigan

In 1923, the Hebards were approached by Ford Motor Company, who wanted to purchase their timber stands only.

Pride Magazine

Whilst many magazines have come and gone over this period, Pride has been the only stable strong title in this category and has over its 18 years become the dominant title in this market and been one of the few niche titles that attracts mainstream advertisers of the likes of Ford and Vodafone.

Ralph Moody

He built his first Model T Ford race car in 1935, and ran it on nights and weekends.

Rick Huseman

Prior to racing, Huseman worked along with his father at a Ford dealer in Riverside, California.

Ron Todd

After completing his national service, Todd returned to plumbing and then worked in the Ford factory in Dagenham, where he joined the TGWU.

Ronnie Rees

Following his retirement from professional football, Rees worked at the Ford motorworks in Swansea and Bridgend.

Sluseholmen

Sluseholmen used to be home to heavy industry, including a Ford cars factory.

Steve Fisher

In 1997, after it was revealed that Maurice Taylor had visited Ed Martin, a retired Ford electrician, the school launched an investigation.

Stone, Kentucky

In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company.

The Neverything

The production, promotion and release of the film is significantly tied to commercial promotion; "The Neverything" was made under the provision of Mercury, a division of Ford Motor Company, and Mercury is using its broadcast of the "webisodes" as an alternative to traditional marketing channels.

Tony Bastable

Bastable later moved into independent production, and he produced training and promotional films for companies such as the Ford Motor Company, the National Bus Company, the Royal Navy, the Department of Transport and the Institute of Advanced Motorists.

Watford Junction railway station

The stillages had fallen from a Ford company goods train that had passed the station a few minutes earlier, conveying car parts from Dagenham to Halewood.


Can-Am

Well-established European manufacturers like Ferrari and BRM appeared at various times with little success, March tried to get a share of the lucrative market in 1970-1 but couldn't establish themselves, and Ford flitted across the scene with a number of unsuccessful cars based on the GT40 and its successors.

Chris Irwin

Irwin's career was ended prematurely by an accident he sustained when driving a Ford P68 sports prototype during practice for the 1968 1000km Nürburgring endurance race.

Daxcon

Daxcon has worked with several large companies such as Caterpillar, Inc., Ford Motor Company, Komatsu, Boeing, and Case New Holland.

DC Design

The firm, founded in 1993, is headed by designer Dilip Chhabria, and under a contract with Ford Motor Company built the first Aston Martin AMV8 Vantage prototype featured at the 2004 Detroit Auto Show.

Detroit Industry Murals

The Detroit Industry Murals are a series of frescoes by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the Ford Motor Company.

Dunton Wayletts

It was destroyed by fire in the early 1960s and the land was bought by Ford Motor Company as part of the site of their Dunton Technical Centre.

In 1967 the Ford Motor Company opened the Dunton Technical Centre on former agricultural land at the north end of Dunton.

Ford Toploader transmission

A Toploader transmission is a manually shifted three and four speed gearbox introduced in 1964 by the Ford Motor Company to replace the BorgWarner T-10.

Fred Zollner

Zollner Corporation, formed in 1912, was a Tier-1 supplier of pistons to companies such as Ford, General Motors, International Harvester (now Navistar), John Deere and Outboard Marine.

Gerry McGovern

In 1978 McGovern began working for Chrysler in Highland Park, near Detroit, before returning to the UK as a Senior Designer for Chrysler/Peugeot; here he worked alongside Peter Horbury (later Head of Design for Volvo in Sweden) and Moray Callum (formerly Head of Design for Mazda, then Director of Ford’s Car design division).

Incitrio

Prior to Incitrio, Ms. Hill’s national clients included: Hallmark, Williams-Sonoma, Mars Candy, Energizer, Ford Motor Co., Sun Microsystems, Intel, Maersk: Shipping and Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Merrill Lynch and Vis.

International Business Wales

Over 500 international companies are located in the country including many of the world’s largest multinationals such as Ford, EDS and Alcatel.

Intra-industry trade

For a very simple example, it could be argued that although a BMW and a Ford are both motor cars, and although a Budweiser and a Heineken are both beers, they are really all different products.

Joe Millikan

However, other races in Joe Milikan's career were done in Pontiac (Pontiac Grand Prix) and Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile Cutlass) vehicles but rarely in Ford (Ford Thunderbird) vehicles.

Johnny K. Larsson

He specialised in the harmonization of design guidelines, requirements and quality assurance for joining methods with Renault Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, Land Rover and Jaguar Cars.

Julian Beeston

More recently, he has worked as a composer and producer, making music for TV commercials for companies such as Mitsubishi and Ford and has produced trailers for Universal, Miramax and 20th Century Fox.

Keri Smith

Smith is a freelance illustrator and has most recently worked for Random House, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe as well as for companies like Ford Motor Company, Gallison/Mudpuppy Press and Hallmark.

Kurt Yaghjian

He has taken part in advertising campaigns for products such as Coca-Cola, Ford Motors, Domino's Pizza, Toyota, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Budweiser and Sprite.

Lotus 38

It was an evolution of the previous Lotus 29 and Lotus 34 Indy designs, but this time with a full monocoque tub chassis; it was powered by the same four-cam Ford V8 fuel injected engine as used in the 34, giving out around 500 bhp.

Loyd Carrier

Initial deliveries were from Vivian Loyd's own company but production moved to the larger firms including the Ford Motor Company and Wolseley Motors ( 13,000 between them) and Dennis Brothers Ltd, Aveling & Barford and Sentinel Waggon Works.

Magneti Marelli

Magneti Marelli worked with Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Auto to develop an in-dash computer (carputer) for Ford's work truck division introduced in 2008 — with a built-in 6.5-inch, high-resolution touch screen and Bluetooth, USB connectivity, GPS Navigation, voice recognition, as well as general office applications, e.g., word processing, contact, and calendar.

MyColors

Sets of themes have been made in partnership with GM, Ford, HP, Dell, the NHL, NBA, and NCAA.

National Negro Labor Council

The organization led job campaigns against companies such as Sears-Roebuck, Ford Motor Company, General Electric and others.

Peter Senge

An engineer by training, Peter was a protégé of John H. Hopkins and has followed closely the works of Michael Peters and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering works with the five disciplines in Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T Corporation, Hanover Insurance, Harley-Davidson since the 70s and 80s through today.

Robert Förster

His career highlights have been wins in the final (Museo del Ghisallo-Milan) stage 21 of the Giro d'Italia 2006, and stage 15 (Motilla del Palancar – Ford factory, Almussafes) of the 2006 Vuelta.

Robert Hudson Ltd

With the demise of the Gildersome works the company became a sales and service organisation for construction plant and machinery e.g. Ford, Barford, Kubota.

Ron Gettelfinger

Gettelfinger started his union involvement in 1964 in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Louisville Assembly Plant run by Ford Motor Company while working as a chassis line repairman.

Thomas L. Cummings, Sr.

His son, Thomas L. Cummings, Jr., was a businessman and founder of Cummings Signs, a manufacturer of corporate brand signs for the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, KFC, Captain D's, the Chevron Corporation, Conoco, Holiday Inn and Bank of America.

Vehicular communication systems

Car manufacturers and communication corporations are also investing in vehicular communications; among them are Kapsch, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Siemens, Honda, Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Mark IV.