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  Henry Ford II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917-September 29, 1987), son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit.
Named president of Ford in 1945, Henry Ford II served in that capacity until November 9, 1960, when he resigned and became Chief Executive Officer of the company.
In 1988 the "Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering" was established by the Society of Automotive Engineers as an annual honorarium "to honor Henry Ford II and to recognize his enormous impact on the mobility industry".
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 Henry Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Ford II was released from the navy and became an executive vice president, while Harry Bennett had a seat on the board and was responsible for personnel, labor relations, and public relations.
Henry Ford is sometimes credited with the invention of the automobile, generally attributed to Karl Benz, and the assembly line, invented by Ransom E. Olds.
Henry Ford, with his son Edsel, founded the Ford Foundation in 1936 as a local philanthropic organization with a broad charter to promote human welfare, as well as to commemorate life the way it was in the early 1900s.
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 Henry Ford II
Henry Ford II Henry Ford II Henry Ford II was a member of the board of Ford Motor Company and chairman of the Finance Committee until his death on Sept. 29, 1987.
Ford was chairman of the trustees of the Ford Foundation from June 1943 until May 1956 and a member of the board of trustees until December 1976.
Ford was born in Detroit on Sept. 4, 1917, the eldest of four children of Mr.
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 SPECTRUM Biographies - Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863 in Wayne county, Michigan.
Ford was able to market the Model T to the general public because of his advanced production technology.
Ford's son Edsel died in 1943, and Ford resumed the presidency.
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 Encyclopedia: Henry Ford II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Ford Motor Company (often referred to simply as Ford or Fords; sometimes nicknamed FoMoCo), NYSE: F is an automobile maker founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, United States (where the company is currently headquartered), and incorporated on June 16, 1903.
William Clay Ford (born March 14, 1925) is the youngest of the four grandchildren of Henry Ford and child of Edsel Ford.
Henry Ford II Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 - September 29, 1987), son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford, was president of Ford Motor Company from 1945-1960, the last member of the Ford family to hold that position.
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 Henry Ford II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was president of Ford Motor Company (additional info and facts about Ford Motor Company) from 1945 to 1960, the last member of the Ford family to hold that position.
Named president of Ford in 1945, Henry Ford II served in that capacity until November 9, 1960, when he resigned and became Chief Executive Officer (The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)) of the company.
Likewise, Ford II hired the creative Lee Iacocca (additional info and facts about Lee Iacocca), designer of the Ford Mustang (additional info and facts about Ford Mustang), in 1946, but fired Iacocca due to personal disputes in 1978.
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 Ford Motor Company - Henry Ford & Family
Until the Quadricycle, Ford's tinkering had been experimental, theoretical—like the gas engine he built on his kitchen table in the 1890's, which was just an engine with nothing to power.
Henry Ford's insistence that the company's future lay in the production of affordable cars for a mass market caused increasing friction between him and the other investors.
Even as Henry Ford II drove the industry's first postwar car off the assembly line, he was making plans to reorganize and decentralize the company to resume its prewar position as a major force in a fiercely competitive auto industry.
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 Henry Ford, Ignorant Genius - Introduction | Henry Ford 1
Ford was a farm boy, bored by the farm, with great ambitions to achieve: to stop the drudgery of farm life and to mechanise it.
Henry Ford was a business and engineering genius; that did not make him a nice or wise or educated man. He was a monomaniac who could play but one tune superbly, but who meddled and drifted from one enthusiasm to another like some bored child let loose in a sweet shop.
Henry Ford is the child that burns down the barn in all innocence, wondering what all the fuss is about when taken to task.
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 Ford History II: Young Henry - The Car Connection
Ford was first to return to civilian production just as it had been last to close it but, in line with most of the industry, 1946-47-48 models were slightly restyled 1942s.
With the company in the good hands of its largely professional managers, Henry II was able to accept an appointment from President Eisenhower as a United Nations delegate at the same time plans were underfoot to offer Ford common stock to the public, accomplished in 1956.
Henry II, interested in affairs outside the company from his formative years, was deeply shocked by the Detroit race riots of 1967 and 1968.
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 Henry Ford
Henry Ford, then, is an apt symbol of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial America.
Henry Ford was one of eight children of William and Mary Ford.
Ford's stubbornness had cost him his leadership position in the industry; the Model A was outsold by General Motors' Chevrolet and Chrysler's Plymouth and was discontinued in 1931.
www.willamette.edu /~fthompso/MgmtCon/Henry_Ford.html   (2831 words)

  
 CHAPTER SIX: Henry Ford and the Nazis
Henry Ford is often seen to be something of an enigma among the Wall Street elite.
Ford accused Morgan and others of using war and revolution as a road to profit and their influence in social systems as a means of personal advancement.
It was Henry Ford who in the 1930s built the Soviet Union's first modern automobile plant (located at Gorki) and which in the 50s and 60s produced the trucks used by the North Vietnamese to carry weapons and munitions for use against Americans.
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 Conversation with Robert McNamara - p. 2 of 8
And Henry Ford II wanted some individuals, the ten of us, who were young, presumably well educated, and whom he could depend upon to take a fresh look at the company and advise him accordingly.
Henry Ford had a rather instinctive understanding of this, that they were in the deepest of trouble.
Well in a sense, Henry Ford II (who was the Chief Executive Officer and one of the major owners), the Board, the owners, and I had a deal.
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 Ward's Auto World: No sudden changes seen for Ford Motor without Henry Ford II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ford was captain of the Ford ship, first as president, then chairman and in recent years as head of the key board of directors' finance committee.
Ford, who owns professional football's Detroit Lions outright (estimated worth $100 million plus), has voluntarily stayed in his brother's shadow when the spotlight was on the auto business, although he is the company's largest single stockholder.
Ford II was the force behind the hiring of highly respected management consultants McKinsey & Co. to help plot the future of Ford management.
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 Henry Ford, II --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Ford, Gerald R. 38th president of the United States (1974–77), who, as 40th vice president, succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon under the process decreed by the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution and thereby became the nation's only unelected chief executive.
In 1919 the company was reincorporated, with Ford, his wife, Clara, and his son, Edsel, acquiring full ownership; they, their heirs, and the Ford Foundation (formed 1936) were sole stockholders until January 1956, when public sale of the common stock was first offered.
Kissinger, Henry A. American political scientist, who, as adviser for national security affairs and secretary of state, was a major influence in the shaping of foreign policy from 1969 to 1976 under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.
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 TIME 100: Henry Ford
Ford had done so many screwy things — from terrorizing his own lieutenants to canonizing Adolf Hitler — that the company's image was as low as it could go.
Ford was the first company to get a car out after the war, and it was the only company that had a real base overseas.
Henry Ford died in his bed at his Fair Lane mansion seven months after I met him, during a flout caused by a storm in the spring of 1947.
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 Reader's Companion to American History - -FORD, HENRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ford did not invent the automobile, but he developed design concepts and production techniques that allowed its manufacture in such volume and at such cost as to bring it within reach of the average wage earner.
Ford was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan.
Ford, a mechanical genius, was otherwise ignorant, narrow, and naive.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_032200_fordhenry.htm   (584 words)

  
 The Henry Ford
Ford is the first and only Auto Company to certify all of its plants (140 plants in 26 different countries) under the provisions of ISO 14001—the world environmental standard.
Ford announces the construction of 6 2003 Model T-100’s (1914 Model T Replicas) for use an April 2003 exhibit at The Henry Ford.
The Henry Ford is an AAM accredited institution.
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 Ward's Auto World: Henry Ford II - American original - editorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ford and George Ferris, who then ran the Rouge steel operations and Ford's fleet of iron-ore boats, chat and sip a toddy as they gaze down at the Detroit River and across to Windsor, Ontario, the only Canadian city south of the U.S. Continue article
Ford is going to be driving by the Glasshouse (Ford's World Headquarters building) at night every now and then to make sure everything is going all right.' Before Mr.
Although he often suggested he'd like to see his son, Edsel B. Ford II, one day head the company, he could tell stockholders that "there are no crown princes at the Ford Motor Co.' Yet he was only 24 when he was elected a Ford director and 30 when he took over as undisputed chief.
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 Points of Pride - Student
HFCC Henry Ford II Honors Program student Ardeta Gjikola was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship, worth $90,000 over three years, to study cell and molecular biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for Fall 2005.
HFCC Henry Ford II Honors Program student Dena Elder was accepted to the School of Aviation at Western Michigan University and to the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Fall 2005.
Henry Ford II Honors Program students Seyed Farshid Bozorgnia and Ahmed Baadani presented a paper with HFCC physics instructor, Paul Holody, titled, “Adapting Energy Dissipation Techniques to determine Damping Constants for a Balloon Oscillator,” to the Michigan Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, April 17, 2004.
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 Yale Bulletin and Calendar - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A courtyard created at the School of Management (SOM) in memory of Yale alumnus Henry Ford II '40 was dedicated in a ceremony held on May 20 and attended by his three children.
The Henry Ford II Court was made possible through a grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund in honor of the former leader of the Ford Motor Company and a major Yale benefactor.
Henry Ford II was president of Ford Motor Company 1945-60 and was its chair 1960-80.
www.yale.edu /opa/ybc/v26.n34.news.17.html   (210 words)

  
 Henry Ford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Henry Ford - Henry Ford Born: 1863 Birthplace: Greenfield, Mich. Transmission mechanism—Ford holds...
Henry Ford: Later Years - Later Years In 1915, in an effort to end World War I, he headed a privately sponsored peace...
Henry Ford Hospital Ends Inpatient Pediatrics; Works With Children's Hospital of Michigan to Provide Care and Educate Residents.
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 Ward's Auto World: Newsweek's Jim Jones remembers HF II - Henry Ford II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Newsweek's Jim Jones remembers HF II Puffing a cigar and sipping tea, Henry Ford II once greeted a newsman with a handshake, nodded toward a pile of paper on his desk, grinned and said: "I've got the answers to all your questions here.
He was told by the chairman of Ford of Europe that the man was ill, was to retire soon, and was suffering emotional distress.
Ford asked how he might help monetarily, without offense, he was advised to present the gentleman's gentleman with cash, saying he wanted to share his winnings after a smashing night at a casino.
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 3639. Henry Ford II. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Henry Ford II My grandfather killed my father in my mind.
I know he died of cancer—but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.
On Henry and Edsel Ford, quoted by Robert Lacey Ford: The Men and the Machine Little, Brown 86
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 Engineering Team from Ford Motor Company to Receive the 2004 SAE Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in ...
The award honors the memory of Henry Ford II and the enormous impact he had on the automotive industry.
This year’s recipients are being recognized for their significant contributions in developing a new non-linear transient analysis method to accurately predict the transient vibration performance of a vehicle, and in directly applying the method to numerous vehicle programs to improve vehicle NVH performance, quality and customer satisfaction.
Prior to joining Ford, he performed research at the University of Houston that included correlation data taken from an experiment performed aboard U. Space Shuttle Mission STS-70; he assisted in the development of the flow visualization methods used.
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 Henry Ford II
The company became a publicly-traded corporation under his tutelage in 1956.
It was reported that 100,000 orders for this car were taken the day it was produced.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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 Hari N. Agrawal to Receive the 2003 SAE Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering
The award, funded by Ford Motor Company, honors the memory of Henry Ford II and the enormous impact he had on the automotive industry.
Agrawal is being recognized, along with his team, for his accomplishment in developing and implementing a unique CAE durability prediction method for MIG and laser welds, a method currently used by Ford Motor Company and several of its subsidiaries in vehicle development.
Agrawal has been at Ford for more than 25 years, holding both research and design positions with a focus on durability and fatigue.
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 Media.Ford.com:
The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company Executive Vice President and President of the Americas, to the Motor Press Guild during the opening of the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday, Jan. 4.
Ford Motor Company achieved its first full year increase in car sales since 1999.
A group called Hurra Torpedo is the centerpiece of an inventive Ford viral marketing campaign.
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