Four-speed manual transmissions were by now almost universally offered in the UK for this class of car, and contemporary road tests commented on the rather large gap between second and third gear, and the resulting temptation to slip the clutch when accelerating through the gears in the smaller-engined cars: it was presumably in tacit acknowledgment of the car's marginal power-to-weight ratio that Ford no longer offered the automatic transmission option with the smallest 1298 cc-engined Cortina.

Ford later commented that his railroad executive father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, but told him, " It's all right for you to try to act, if you learn something else first.

Shelby was the western states GOODYEAR racing tire distributor and commented that he needed GOODYEAR as well Ford ’ s support to go to Europe and “ kick Enzo Ferarri ’ s ass ” for the World GT Championship.

When Ford showed little interest in Jones ' concerns, Jones commented " had then but one request to make ; if you left their lives in the hands of those men to be sacrificed, that the Almighty will preserve my life to a proper time and place to testify that you have been timely warned of their danger.

William Hutchinson, a contemporary author writing about Sir John Hussey Delaval's Ford estate which included Ford Forge, commented as follows.

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

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

The Ford GT40 is a high performance British-American sports car and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans four consecutive times, from 1966 to 1969 ( 1966 being the Mk II, 1967 the Mk IV, and 1968-1969 the oldest chassis design, the Mk I ).

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.

A Ford GT40 Mk I competing in the 1969 Nurburgring 1000km race

The Mk I was the original Ford GT40.

Ford GT40 Mk I road version

Ford was also widely known for his pacifism during the first years of World War I, but also for being the publisher of antisemitic texts such as the book The International Jew.

The LEO project was also a pioneer in outsourcing: in 1956, Lyons started doing the payroll calculations for Ford UK and others on the LEO I machine.

File: 1st Ford Windstar. jpg | Ford Windstar 1995-1998, Generation I

At a function attended by the Queen at Parliament House, Canberra, in 1963, Menzies quoted the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford, " I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die ".

I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them.

Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.

In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller Syriana, later commenting that " I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake.

Let's Roll " appears on the back of the titular character's Mach I Ford Mustang.

Spielberg suggested casting Ford as Jones, but Lucas objected, stating that he did not want Ford to become his " Bobby De Niro " or " that guy I put in all my movies ", a reference to Martin Scorsese, who often worked with Robert De Niro.

He played a religious World War I soldier in the 1934 John Ford epic The Lost Patrol.

" John Ford — who worked with Wayne on many films ( such as The Searchers, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance )— was so impressed with Wayne's performance that he is reported to have said, " I didn ’ t know the big son of a bitch could act!

' I need you ,' Ford told Kissinger.

Though originally reported to be based strongly on the Ford Evos concept car, the development of the Fusion based on the Evos indicates that, while the Mustang is expected to borrow some styling from the concept, it will not rely as heavily upon it and there has been no indication from Ford whether it will share the global platform with the Fusion and Ford Mondeo or sit upon a modified version of its current platform.

The Strasburg City Council established the United States ' first Junior City Council in 2006, sponsored by City Council member Patricia Ford and strongly supported by Mayor Gregory McClure.

A new plant was purchased in 1924 as Hupp competed strongly against Ford and Chevrolet and by 1928 sales had reached over 65, 000 units.

Despite this, Vauxhall was competing strongly in the sales charts, and by 1999, was closer to Ford in terms of sales figures than it had been in years.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

The Droopsnoot Firenza's front end strongly influenced the design of the Arcadipane " Concorde " body kit marketed for the Ford Falcon XB, famously portrayed by the Pursuit Special in the Mad Max films.

Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, and many other forward-thinking film directors were held up in admiration while standard Hollywood films bound by traditional narrative flow were strongly criticized.

Cain were all strongly influenced by Ford ; their careers date from the post WWII era.

Some of the film's plot points and scenery are strongly inspired by an influential Italian comics series, Alan Ford by Roberto Raviola and Luciano Secchi.

He also strongly criticized the powerful political Ford family, particularly former state senator John Ford and former U. S. Representative Harold Ford, Jr ..

Harrison Ford turned down the role of Robert Barnes ( the role played by George Clooney ), regretting it later, stating, " I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake ".

The Army felt that the Bantam company was too small to supply the number of vehicles it needed, so it supplied the Bantam design to Willys and Ford who were encouraged to make their own changes and modifications.

In 1958 the Army felt that existing knowledge was sufficient for work on a guided missile with a HEAT warhead to begin, and in June 1959 Sperry and Ford Aeronutronic were asked for designs to fill the shorter range role.

In a television interview shown in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had on his life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated " As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've always felt Jewish.

He was told by Tokovsky that when actor Tony Curtis delivered a bag of groceries, he did it like a movie star ; Ford felt his job was to act like a bellboy.

In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interest of the country.

Ford felt Kissinger was essential to provide continuity following the constitutional crisis of Watergate.

Ford agreed with Merton, but added that he felt Merton was suited for the diocesan priesthood and advised against joining an order.

Cosworth received the order along with the £ 100, 000 that Ford felt it adequate to spend on such an objective.

The sin of pride was apparent not just in criminals, but more dangerously in people who felt good about their deeds — rather like Henry Ford ( whom he did not mention by name ).

Management at Ford of Britain in Dagenham felt that they could not develop a similar small car to the same scale as the production cost would be too high, so instead they set about creating a larger family car which they could sell in large numbers.

Though Ford was pleased to see sales of the Thunderbird rise to a record-breaking 21, 380 units for 1957, company executives felt the car could do even better, leading to a substantial redesign of the car for 1958.

1959 Ford Thunderbird Convertible Although the Thunderbird had been considered a rousing success, Ford executives — particularly Robert McNamara – felt that the car's position as a two-seater restricted its sales potential.

Besides all this, Ford Australia felt they had more experience building North American cars.

Henry Ford felt that he had succeeded in spite of, not because of, experts, who had tried to stop him in various ways ( disagreeing about price points, production methods, car features, business financing, and other topics ).

Ford always felt that had he been able to appear in three of the games instead of just two, the Yankees would have won.

She was assigned to a negligible role by Zanuck, which displeased the film's director, John Ford, who felt that she was not suitable.

In addition, Ford executives became adamant that the new vehicle feature four-wheel-drive, an addition they felt would be necessary to allow it the ability to compete properly with four-wheel-drive models from Peugeot and Audi.

Carole Ann Ford had expressed a desire to leave the series as she felt the character of Susan was too limiting.

Since the series producers and the actor himself felt that Ford had not worked as intended and was highly underused, the writers came up with an idea to make the character more important in a recurring role.

After the end of season 1, the series producers, and the actor himself, felt that Ford had not worked as intended and was highly underused as a result.

On October 30, 1976, Weekend Update played the 1974 broadcast of Ford pardoning President Richard Nixon – many backstage felt that decision was instrumental in helping Jimmy Carter win the ' 76 election, especially among younger voters.

However, Ford and automotive pundits felt that this name was too close to the market-leader Ford F-150, and following a lawsuit by Ford, the production truck was renamed the Tundra ( Toyota claimed they never truly intended to use the T150 name in actual production ).