University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive 1953 Fifty Years Forward With Ford Ford Motor Company Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region Part of the Canadian History Commons Recommended Citation Ford Motor Company, "Fifty Years Forward With Ford" (1953). SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications. 81. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/81 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive at Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SO-Yeats Forward with Ford The_Dream that put the World on Wheels "I will buUd 11 riwlor CtJr roads or sidewalks, no automo- carriage" bullt in North America. for thB great mu~. biles, no telephones, no movies. In ensuing years, to attract the It will lie lllrg11 eilough Indoor plumbing was a primitive financial bai:lcing he needed for for the fam!lf1 but lfJ1iJil luxury. As yet there was no trans· the great ventun that was in his 11nough for tnaWitllltl& to continental railway. mind, he built racing cars and run 11nd CGI'II for. U will Henry Ford, as one biographer risked his life to establish new be constructlltl of the put it, was a boy who "'iked speed records. It Willi not until bul rnotllrltlh, b!l th11 machines better than anything.• 1900, after two unsuccessful ex- lJm IMR to be hirtJd, Through his love of machinery he periences, that be was able to after the $impled dulgM was able to be of great service to form the Ford Motor Company.