Examples include MK Engineering ( who have continued on the concept and now offer their MK Indy, based on the Ford Sierra ), RaceTech with their Lada based ESTfield, DD7 in Umeå, Sweden and many more.

Notable alumni include: Alan Mulally ( BS / MS ), President and CEO of Ford Motor Company, Lou Montulli, co-founder of Netscape and author of the Lynx web browser, Brian McClendon ( BSEE 1986 ), VP of Engineering at Google, Charles E. Spahr ( 1934 ), former CEO of Standard Oil of Ohio.

Cosworth was initially an independent company, later becoming part of United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) and subsequently Vickers, but also had a long association with Ford Motor Company and was a subsidiary of Ford between 1998 and 2004.

North Campus is home to the fraternity quads, the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatics Center and other athletic facilities, the Technological Institute, Dearborn Observatory, and other science-related buildings including Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Hall for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.

Silverman Hall on the Evanston campus was awarded Gold LEED Certification in 2010 ; Wieboldt Hall on the Chicago campus was awarded Gold LEED Certification in 2007, and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center on the Evanston campus was awarded Silver LEED Certification in 2006.

The executive staff of the Open Software Foundation included David Tory, President formerly of Computer Associates ; Norma Clarke, Vice-President Human Resources formerly of Mitre Corp .; Marty Ford, Vice-President Finance formerly of Digital Equipment Corp .; Ira Goldstein, Vice-President Research Institute formerly of Hewlett-Packard ; Roger Gourd, Vice-President Engineering formerly of Digital Equipment Corp .; Alex Morrow, Vice-President Strategy formerly of IBM ; Donal O ' Shea, Vice-President of Operations formerly of Unisoft Corp.

The car was modified by the Tickford Engineering Company in conjunction with Ford.

In the past the town hosted a Starkey Knight and Ford brewery on Fore Street ( demolished in the late 1960s ), several maltings, a light engineering works ( Trig Engineering, since moved to the Huntworth Business Park adjacent to the nearby Junction 24 of the M5 motorway ), and in earlier times at least 7 watermills.

With Martin Lilley now being in charge of TVR Engineering ( him and his father had rescued TVR from bankruptcy ) Gerry's racing plans for 1967 seemed to naturally revolve around TVR, the TVR Griffith seemingly ideal, especially with the planned 400 bhp 5. 3 litre Ford V8, the possibility of the 1-litre TVR Tina ( named after Gerry's eldest daughter and one of the two prototypes is owned by the Marshall family ), the TVR 18010S a Lotus Elan and there was also a plan to go into partnership with Ken Ayres in a hot Mini 850.

Other businesses based in or around the town include ; Evans Accountants ( Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors ), Core Business Management Ltd ( Outsourced Business Services ), Clitheroe Light Engineering ( engineering ), Spiroflow ( material handling ), Shackletons Garden & Lifestyle Centre, Farmhouse Fayre, Townson Bros. ( fuel suppliers ), Clarity Sign & Design ( sign design and installation ) and Rufus Carr Ltd ( Independent Ford dealer ) est. 1928.

The concept originated during 1963 with drawings by Ron Hickman, director of Lotus Engineering ( Designer of the original Lotus Elan, as well as inventor of the Black and Decker Workmate ), for a bid on the Ford GT40 project.

Engineering work on the K-car began in 1976 after former Ford Motor Co. executive Hal Sperlich began working at Chrysler after having been fired by Ford.

The Corsair convertible was a product of Crayford Engineering | Crayford Auto Developments which was first exhibited at the London Motor Show in October 1966 With the vinyl roof ed Corsair 2000E Ford attempted to compete on price half a class up in the category dominated ( in the UK ) by the Rover P6 | Rover 2000 and Triumph 2000.

Mechanical Engineering 1968-late father of the original Ford Taurus and Sable.

Tickford Vehicle Engineering, an English company, were contracted to perform enhancements to Ford sedans, leading to the XR sports models.

Instead Michael Costin and Keith Duckworth of Cosworth Engineering introduced the 16-valve DOHC unit based on Ford earlier Kent X-flow engine.

“ For every eight Escape and Mariner vehicles we sell, one of them is a hybrid, and the appeal is growing ,” says Sue Ciscke, Ford senior vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering.

In 1990, he scored a career high season-end ranking of fifth for Bud Moore Engineering in the # 15 Motorcraft Ford Thunderbird.

His best result was 1st place at the C-1 class in the ' 88 Fuji 1000 km in Japan with a Spice SE88C Ford car of the BP Spice Engineering.

Following this spell at AML, he returned to Ford in 1995, taking over as director of Service Engineering within the Customer Service Division, his time there being most noticeable for an early TV appearance in a combative appearance opposite Ann Robinson on the BBC's Watchdog programme, robustly defending Ford's handling of a safety recall campaign for brake servo assist pumps in its diesel car range.

In addition to using the house as a school for training Ford tractor mechanics, the company's British chairman, Lord Perry, established Fordson Estates Limited there, and founded the Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, an agricultural college.

He worked his way through the junior categories of motor sport in Europe, such as Formula Ford, Formula 3, eventually F3000 and various touring and sports car races in America, including drives for Spice Engineering.

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3 ).

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35 ).

Subsequently, on December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal invalidated the Noriega regime's annulment of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón.

Tyler's precedent made it possible for Vice Presidents Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson to ascend to the presidency ( Gerald Ford took office after the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment ).

Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.

Ford and Rockefeller are the only two people to have served as Vice President without having been elected to the office, and Ford remains the only person to have served as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office.

* August 9 – Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford succeeds Richard Milhous Nixon as the 38th President of the United States of America.

* November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92 – 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

* December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387 – 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ; he is sworn in the same day.

** U. S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.

Nixon replaced him by appointing by then House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to the office of Vice President.

The second time was when Ford, after becoming President upon Nixon's resignation, chose Nelson Rockefeller ( originally Agnew's mentor in the moderate wing of the Republican Party ) to succeed him as Vice President.

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to the Vice Presidency in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Vice President Gerald Ford said, " While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed page, we cannot delete characterization from people's minds with a wave of the hand.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

* Gerald Ford often rode his snowmobile around Camp David and hosted Indonesian President Suharto.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

" Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

On January 10, 1977, John Bardeen was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford.

* 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D ' Aquino ( a. k. a. " Tokyo Rose ").

On 23 Dec 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-168, the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

Human rights groups condemned the actions, but U. S. President Gerald Ford refused to break the U. S. alliance with Somoza.

One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

* 1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

Trudeau wrote in his memoirs that U. S. President Gerald Ford arranged this, and expressed sincere appreciation.

The unemployment averaged 6. 4 percent under President Carter and 7. 8 percent under President Ford.