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.

Ford Motor Co. engineer Roy Lunn was sent to England ; he had designed the mid-engined Mustang I concept car powered by a 1. 7 litre V4.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

In 1951 the Ford Motor Company signed on as a corporate sponsor of the Geelong Football Club.

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.

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 ''.

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

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.

Until the Ford era cars had been produced by hand coachbuilding craft methods, such as the English wheel.

Ryan, the son of a Ford dealer in Wisconsin, had started his company as an auto credit insurer in 1964.

The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.

By 1935, the company had established a true production line, following the example of Ford, and were producing a car closely resembling the Austin 7.

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

Henry Ford II had wanted a Ford at Le Mans since the early 1960s.

The Lola proposal was chosen, since Lola had used a Ford V8 engine in their mid-engined Lola Mk 6 ( also known as Lola GT ).

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

They could reward an outstanding driver who had been at times extremely difficult to work with, or they could decide in favour of drivers ( McLaren / Amon ) with less commitment to the Ford program but who had been easier to deal with.

This technique saved the brakes, but the resulting increase in the car's recorded lap times during practice led to speculation within the Ford team that Gurney and Foyt, in an effort to compromise on chassis settings, had hopelessly " dialed out " their car.

Later models or prototypes have also been called the Ford GT but have had different numbering on them such as the Ford GT90 or the Ford GT70.

Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace.

They had one child: Edsel Ford ( 1893 – 1943 ).

The versions produced by Ford had every component ( including bolt heads ) marked with an " F ".

* September 4 – In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird for 3 years rolls off the assembly line.

The car was assembled at the Dearborn Assembly Plant ( DAP ) ( one of six plants within the Ford Rouge Center ) in Dearborn, Michigan from 1967 to 1973, at the San Jose Assembly Plant in Milpitas, California from 1968 into early 1969 and at the Lorain Assembly Plant ( LAP ) in Lorain, Ohio from 1974 to 1997.

After graduation from Texas A & M University in 1948 he began to climb in management, making the rounds through Ford assembly plants in Atlanta, Georgia, and Lorain, Ohio, during the 1950s.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the Freelander was moved to the Halewood Body & Assembly plant near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant.

Since 1947, Hapeville was home to the Ford Atlanta Assembly Plant, recently making the Taurus.

The city was home to the former Wixom Assembly Plant, which produced the Lincoln LS, the Ford Thunderbird, the Ford GT, and the Lincoln Town Car.

Flat Rock is home to the AutoAlliance International manufacturing plant, soon to be known as Ford Flat Rock Assembly Plant, co-owned by Ford Motor Company and Mazda Motor Corporation.

Ford Motor Company has two plants here ; Wayne Stamping & Assembly and the Michigan Assembly Plant, formerly known as Michigan Truck Plant.

The Michigan Assembly Plant began manufacturing the third generation, North American Ford Focus on December 14, 2010.

In one case, the Quebec National Assembly invoked this power to override a Supreme Court decision ( Ford v. Quebec ( A. G .)) that held that one of Quebec's language laws banning the display of English commercial signs was inconsistent with the charter.

* Ford Motor Company had a plant here, the Ford Assembly Plant on U. S. Route 1, assembling the Ford Ranger and Mazda B-Series trucks.

The major manufacturing sector is automobiles, which was begun in the 1980s, when Ford built the Hermosillo Stamping & Assembly Plant.

The Genk Body & Assembly factory of Ford Motor Company is the largest and most important employer in Genk today, employing some 5, 000 people and building the Mondeo sedan and hatchback, the Galaxy ( second generation, from 2006 and onwards ) MPV / minivan, and the S-MAX sub-MPV.

Ford had told the Canadian Auto Workers that it would invest $ 200 million in the vehicles, which are assembled at the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in St. Thomas, Ontario.

In the eastern end of Oakville, the route curves northeast, passing the Ford Motor Assembly Plant.

The Oakville Assembly plant underwent retooling for the Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX crossover SUVs.

While the Taurus's direct replacement in the midsize classification was the slightly smaller Ford Fusion, introduced in 2005, the Five Hundred was also considered by some to be a successor as well, and it replaced the Taurus on the Chicago Assembly line.