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11 unusual facts about Henry Ford


Allan A. Lamport

He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and once rose in the legislature to denounce Henry Ford for his lack of support for the Canadian war effort calling him a "black-hearted American Quisling".

Art silk

In 1931, Henry Ford hired chemists Robert Boyer and Frank Calvert to produce artificial silk made with soybean fibers.

Belterra, Pará

Belterra was founded as a rubber plantation, after the economic failure of Fordlândia, which had been founded in 1934 by Henry Ford.

Car turntable

Henry Ford greatly expanded his production line manufacture with affordable automobiles beginning in 1913, most notably with his Ford Model T.

D-8 Armored Car

While this chassis was available thereafter, the provision of series production technology to the USSR by Henry Ford in 1931-32 gave a major boost to Soviet armored car production.

Pallophotophone

Among the material on the surviving reels is the earliest known recording of the NBC chimes, a broadcast of a high school basketball match (believed to be the world's second-oldest recording of a sports broadcast) and a historic 1929 recording of the 82-year-old Thomas Edison, with Henry Ford and President Herbert Hoover, speaking on a broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb.

Perrinsville School

In 1937, the school was closed and replaced by another one-room school called Nankin Mills, built by Henry Ford two and half miles away.

Reddi-wip

Other similar products were on the market at the time including the non-dairy Rich's Whip Topping and Delsoy Presto Whip, which were developed at Henry Ford's soybean laboratories.

Theodor Fritsch

The firm issued German translations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and "The International Jew" (collected writings of Henry Ford from The Dearborn Independent) as well as many of Fritsch's own works.

Vilmos Vázsonyi

Vasvonyi died June 1, 1926, from injuries suffered in an assault by Franz Molnar and the notorious anti-Semite Laszlo Vannay, described as "Ford's protege".

Yoshiro Okabe

Edison liked him very much, and brought him camping with Henry Ford and Harvey Samuel Firestone.


Chris-Craft Boats

Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

Donald Petersen

Mr. Petersen's relationship with members of the founding Ford family became strained after he opposed the nomination of founder Henry Ford's great-grandsons, Edsel Buell Ford II ("Edsel") and William Clay Ford Jr. ("Billy", "Bill Jr.", and later just "Bill") to certain committees of the board of Ford in the wake of the death of family patriarch and former Ford Chairman & CEO Henry Ford II in 1987.

Eagle-class patrol craft

In June 1917, President of the United States Woodrow Wilson had summoned auto-builder Henry Ford to Washington in the hope of getting him to serve on the United States Shipping Board.

Feadship

As the American economy boomed, Henry Ford and Malcolm Forbes were but two of a host of famous folk to take advantage of Feadship's custom-built yachts.

Flux Family Secrets: The Rabbit Hole

Throughout the journey, the player travels to different locations in time that impacted three historical events; The Gettysburg Address; Henry Ford's test drive of the Quadricycle; and the Boston Tea Party which includes the Green Dragon Tavern, Griffin's Wharf and the tea ship named the Beaver.

There, the player finds the missing Apollo components by fixing these historical events with the help of Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford and Paul Revere.

Ford Motor Company of Australia

Henry Ford had granted the manufacturing rights to Ford in British Empire (later Commonwealth) countries (excepting the UK) to Canadian investors.

Ford Racing

1896 - Henry Ford reached a top speed of 20 mph in his first car, Quadricycle.

Ford Taunus P3

Unusually for a car launch, both the by now 84 year old German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer and the grandson of the firm's founder, Henry Ford were present.

Grosse Isle, Quebec

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

Margaret Lindsay Williams

She is best known as a portrait painter and was commissioned to paint portraits of Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, at least five portraits of the present Queen Elizabeth II, President Warren Harding, Henry Ford, and Field Marshal Slim.

Paul Underwood Kellogg

An opponent of U.S. involvement in the First World War, Kellogg joined Jane Addams and Oswald Garrison Villard, to persuade Henry Ford, the American industrialist, to organize a peace conference in Stockholm.

Peter E. Martin

Henry Ford called Martin and Charles E. Sorensen into his office and told Martin and Sorensen to go out and run the plant (Piquette Plant).

Raymond Oliver

His celebrity clientele ranged from statesmen like Winston Churchill and Andre Malraux, to writers including Albert Camus and Georges Simenon, to the industrialists and financiers Henry Ford and David Rockefeller.

Sleepers, Wake!

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford have shaped human experience more broadly and enduringly than Lenin and Hitler.

Swallow Falls State Park

In the summer of 1921, calling themselves the vagabonds, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone camped at Muddy Creek Falls.

The Amazon Trail

They pass many famous sites such as Henry Ford's campsite where he is trying to start a rubber plantation for his tires, and can speak with other notable figures such as Theodore Roosevelt, who went on an expedition to South America in 1913 and 1914.

The Law of Success

The work was originally commissioned at the request of Andrew Carnegie at the conclusion of a multi-day interview with Hill, and was based upon interviews of over 100 American millionaires across nearly 20 years, including such self-made industrial giants as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

Vince Barnett

Among the many victims of his pranks were such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen.

Weslemkoon Lake

The lighthouse cottage has been said to have been visited by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.