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.

Henry Ford, the biggest automaker of his day, refused to contribute because he believed the government should build America's roads.

The smallest domestic automaker did not have " the massive R & D budgets of General Motors, Ford, and foreign competitors ... AMC placed R & D emphasis on bolstering the product life cycle of its prime products ( particularly Jeeps ).

As an independent automaker, Packard did not have the luxury of a larger corporate structure absorbing its losses, as Cadillac did with GM and Lincoln with Ford.

General Motors replaced Ford as the only American automaker with no minivans after the 2009 model year in the United States & Canada, although Ford had only two years of no minivans in the United States & Canada.

Kerkorian began buying Ford Motor Company stock in April 2008, and spent about $ 1 billion to accumulate a 6 % stake in the automaker.

The Ford Orion is a saloon car built by the automaker Ford for the European market from 22 July 1983 until 19 September 1993.

The Ford Escape is a compact crossover sold by the automaker Ford Motor Company introduced in 2000 as a 2001 model year and priced below the Ford Explorer.

Jaguar Land Rover PLC is a British premium automaker headquartered in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors since June 2008, when it was acquired from Ford Motor Company.

The Blackwood was a pickup truck from the Lincoln division of American automaker Ford Motor Company.

The Mark LT is a luxury pickup truck by Lincoln, the luxury division of the American automaker Ford Motor Company.

Ghosn, who was the third non-Japanese person to lead a Japanese automaker after Henry Wallace and Mark Fields, who were appointed by Ford to run Mazda -- spearheaded major structural changes at Nissan, dramatically altering the corporate culture.

Ford engineers working on the MN12 program also explored the use of all-wheel drive for the platform with Ford going so far as paying German automaker Porsche to study the feasibility of its use, but Kuchta ultimately decided against it out of cost concerns.

The automaker Henry Ford and his wife, Clara B. Ford, donated 50 acres of land.

Products included a Tickford Austin Metro, a Tickford Ford Capri and even Tickford train interiors, particularly on the Jaguar XJS.

However, with engine rule changes for the 1990 season and the launch of the new Aston Martin Volante model, Ford provided the limited supply of Cosworth engines to the Jaguar cars racing team.

After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.

In Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Jaguar, Opel, Ford, Vauxhall Motors and Volvo are or were common contemporary bases, and in the past even used Rolls-Royce cars were converted, though their cost is generally considered prohibitive.

In June 2008 Ford sold both Land Rover and Jaguar Cars to Tata Motors.

On 11 June 2007, Ford Motor Company announced its plan to sell Land Rover, along with Jaguar.

A UK-based private equity firm, Alchemy Partners, and the India-headquartered Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.

On 26 March 2008, Ford announced that it had agreed to sell its Jaguar and Land Rover operations to Tata Motors, and that the sale was expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2008.

* 12 June 2007: Announcement from the Ford Motor Company that it plans to sell Land Rover and also Jaguar Cars

* August 2007: India's Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra as well as financial sponsors Cerberus Capital Management, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management expressed their interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.

* 26 March 2008: Ford agreed to sell their Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata Motors.

* 2 June 2008: Tata Motors finalised their purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

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** Jaguar AJ-V6 engine — V6 ( a variation of a Ford engine )

** Jaguar AJD-V6 engine — V6 ( diesel engine designed by Ford )

In the 1999, Ford decided that Jaguar would be the corporation's Formula One entry.

Ford bought out the Stewart Grand Prix team and rebranded it as Jaguar Racing for the 2000 season.

In September, 2004 Ford announced that it was selling Cosworth and Pi Research, along with Cosworth Racing Ltd and its Jaguar Formula One team.

Over the next few years Ford had increased its involvement with the Stewart team, and finally bought the team, renaming it Jaguar Racing for 2000.

Sports cars like the Jaguar E-Type with its side-hinged opening, Toyota 2000GT, and Datsun 240Z carried rear tailgates, with one row of seats, and Ford relaunched the Capri with a hatchback in 1974.

Ford acquired Aston Martin for an undisclosed sum in September 1987 and Jaguar for US $ 2. 38 billion in November 1989.

In 2008 Ford sold Jaguar Land Rover to Tata Motors of India for £ 1. 15 billion.

The rights to the dormant Rover brand were sold by Ford, along with the Jaguar Land Rover business, to Tata Motors in 2008.