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.

Merritt D. Hill, Ford Motor Co. vice president, says his company is starting to get calls daily from dealers demanding immediate delivery or wanting earlier shipping dates on orders for corn pickers.

The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers.

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The American M8 Light Armored Car was a 6x6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during the Second World War intended initially as a fast wheeled tank destroyer.

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

* 1947 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company ( b. 1863 )

The American automaker Ford Motor Company has an assembly plant located on the South Side, and most of the facilities of the Port of Chicago are here.

* 1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

* 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

McCullough accused Draper of sympathizing with the communist party, and although Draper denied the accusation, McCullough demanded that Sullivan ’ s lead sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, cancel Draper ’ s appearance.

In the 1950s, Ford Motor Company performed a serious feasibility study for a flying car product.

* Ford Fusion, two separate automobile product lines from Ford Motor Company

In the spring of 1963, Ford reportedly received word through a European intermediary that Enzo Ferrari was interested in selling to Ford Motor Company.

* 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post.

In 1861, the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co .( later described by Nicholas Pevsner as the ' beginning of a new era in Western art ') was founded with Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb as partners, together with Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, the former of whom was a member of the Oxford Brotherhood, and the latter a friend of Brown and Rossetti.

( Wyandotte was home to several companies as well, including the Regeant Stove Co .) It would be this technology that would give Henry Ford from nearby Dearborn the capabilities to create large amounts of steel for his automobile assembly lines.

* Bob Pryor ( 1914 – 81 ), noted Florida and Ford Motor Co. auto executive, was born in Leesburg.

Among the industries that would prosper in the first half of the 20th century were Alcoa Aluminum, the Ford Motor Company, Lever Brothers, Valvoline Oil Co. and Archer-Daniels-Midland.

An example of a Pinto rear-end accident that led to a lawsuit was the 1972 accident resulted in the court case Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co., in which the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District upheld compensatory damages of $ 2. 5 million and punitive damages of $ 3. 5 million against Ford, partially because Ford had been aware of the design defects before production but had decided against changing the design.

In 1970, Ford asked Weslake and Co of Rye to build the BDA Engine for them, and by the end of 1970 the production line had been installed at Rye and production was under way.

In 1861, William Morris founded the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. with Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb as partners, together with Charles Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall, the former of whom was a member of the Oxford Brotherhood, and the latter a friend of Brown and Rossetti.

He once responded to the Taco Liberty Bell incident by saying that the federal government was also " selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Co. and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial.

Joe Greenwell, vice-president of marketing and operations for parent Ford Motor Co. believed the new name would " stimulate interest in the product.

She has served on the Board of Directors of CIBC, the Standard Life Insurance Co., Hasbro Inc., Hollinger International, Vivendi Universal, Ford Motor Company and IAC / InterActiveCorp.

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.

* John W. Martin, Jr., Former Vice President and General Counsel Ford Motor Co.

Interestingly, the 1970 T-Bird styling change was reportedly ordered by Ford Motor Co. president Bunkie Knudsen, who moved from GM to Ford in 1968 after a long career at GM which included the position of general manager for the Pontiac Motor Division from 1956-1961 and ordered the addition of the Grand Prix to the 1962 model lineup.

Last Bantam ever built left the production line at 11h50 17 November 2011 at Ford Motor Co South Africa.

1997-The heavy duty truck (" AeroMax ") products of the Ford Motor Co. were acquired, and renamed Sterling ( from an early White Motors brand ).

Although technically the property of the White Motor Co., and conveyed to its successor, Volvo-White Motor Co., which evolved into Volvo Trucks North America, the trademark had lain dormant so long that there were no grounds for objection when Daimler-Benz subsidiary Freightliner — whose trucks were distributed by White from the 1950s through 1975 — resurrected it to supplant the Ford blue oval on their HN80 (" AeroMax ") family of trucks after the purchase.

In 1939, Manchester Foodship For Spain, a group of artists and activists engaged in sending aid to the people of Spain, exhibited the painting in the HE Nunn & Co Ford automobile showroom in Manchester for two weeks.

After a four-year spell with the Ford Motor Co. team, which saw McRae win nine events, he moved to Citroën World Rally Team in 2003 where, despite not winning an event, he helped them win the first of their three consecutive manufacturers ' titles.

Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.

There will be premieres of new works, made possible through Ford Foundation commissions: Carlisle Floyd's Mystery, with Phyllis Curtin as soprano soloist.

`` And next year we will do -- also a Ford commission -- a piano concerto by Elliott Carter, with Jacob Lateiner as soloist.

They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

Ford urged Morgan to capture these men, who, he thought, might be disguised as Quakers or peasants.

It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.

Henry Ford spoke of me as `` utterly astounding ''.

In 1915 Edward S. Dana, editor of the sixth edition, asked W. E. Ford of Yale University to prepare a seventh edition of his father's work.

W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.

The Ford and the pickup truck sped west toward Sanford's Run.

It was the Ford that had been outside Burch's farm.

When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

And then the station wagon and the Ford would seek him out again.

`` Yeah, it's a real load '', I told him, looking up the street at my battered Ford.

A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

he avidly reads the Wall Street Journal, and took delight in driving a $250 model A Ford for 22 years, then selling it for $300.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

Performed thousands of times in recent years, Mr. Dragon's arrangement has been played for state occasions such as the memorial services for Presidents Ford and Reagan and at tribute concerts for events such as the Oklahoma City bombing and 9 / 11.