FORD MOTOR CO. 1920s - 1940s FOOTAGE FORDS TWENTY MILLIONTH CAR ROUGE ASSEMBLY LINE XD31051

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This black and white, silent film is a collection of footage related to the Ford Motor Company from the early 1920’s through the early 1940’s (though not in chronological order: Footage from 00:06 to 01:56 is from the 1920’s, 01:56 to 03:25 appears to be early 1940’s, and the remaining segments are from the early 1930’s.) You’ll see Ford’s River Rouge factory, acres of newly built cars, Model T’s, Model A’s, workers, trains, planes, a fire, and the twenty-millionth car Ford built! The Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford built his first experimental car in a workshop behind his home in Detroit in 1896. The first Ford car was assembled at the Mack Avenue plant in July, 1903. Five years later, in 1908, the highly successful Model T was introduced. Demand for this car was so great that Ford developed the world’s first