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6 unusual facts about Henry Ford II


Acquavella Galleries

His international clientele included top museums and collectors like Henry Ford II, Paul Mellon, and Walter H. Annenberg.

Ferdinand Simoneit

During his time with Der Spiegel he also had more than 25 cover stories to his credit as well as interviews with Heinrich Nordhoff, SPD politician Georg Leber, Nikita Khrushchev, Walter Ulbricht and Henry Ford II.

Henry Ford II

In 1973 and 1974, as it became clear that the American car market would begin to favor smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, Ford's then-President Lee Iacocca was highly interested in buying powertrains from Honda Motor Company as a way to minimize the cost of developing a small Ford car for the North American market, such as a modified version of Ford of Europe's Ford Fiesta.

Jennifer Doudna

Doudna was promoted to the position of Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale in 2000.

Scott Strobel

Scott A. Strobel Ph.D. is the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and the vice-president of West Campus Planning and Program Development.

Stanley Fay

In September 1945, Henry Ford II removed Bennett from his executive position at Ford Motor Company, and Bennett then resigned his position on the board of directors.


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.

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.

Ford Thunderbird

The men and their teams generally credited with the creation of the original Thunderbird are: Lewis D. Crusoe, a retired GM executive lured out of retirement by Henry Ford II; George Walker, chief stylist and a Ford vice-president; Frank Hershey, chief stylist for Ford Division; Bill Boyer, designer Body Development Studio who became manager of Thunderbird Studio in spring of 1955, and Bill Burnett, chief engineer.


see also

Cristina Ford

Cristina met Henry Ford II in 1960 during a party at Maxim’s in Paris, France.

Ford Vega

Celebrities such as Groucho Marx and Howard Hughes were offered private viewings of the Vega by invitation of Henry Ford II.

Robert J. Sampson

Robert J. Sampson (born July 9, 1956 in Utica) is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.