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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

Timeline of Events

1903

6.16.1903

The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.

7.23.1903

The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.

1908

10.1.1908

Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

1913

12.1.1913

The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

1914

1.5.1914

The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.

1919

1.1.1919

Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.

1920

1.26.1920

Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

1927

5.27.1927

The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

12.2.1927

Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

1957

9.4.1957

The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

1958

3.16.1958

The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

1959

11.19.1959

The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1964

4.17.1964

The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.