The Roaring TwentiesAutomobile Travel/Creation of US

Federal Highways/Route 66

• Ford Company• Henry Ford• Model T• Highways• Route 66

Ford Motor Company

• Founded in Highland Park, Michigan June 16, 1903 by Henry Ford

• Started out by producing the model A by small teams

• Inventor of the assembly line and Fordism.

• In the 1920s almost 9 out of 10 cars in the wolrd were Fords.

• Todays revenue for the Ford Company is 160.1 Billion Dollars.

Henry Ford

• 30. Juli 1863 in Wayne County, Michigan, USA; † 7. April 1947 in Dearborn, Michigan

• an apprentice machinist with James F. Flower & Bros. and later with the Detroit Dry Dock Co

• marriage to Clara Bryant in 1888• Became an engineer for Edison

Illuminating Company and started working with gasoline motors

• Founded the Detroit Automobile Company but quickly went bancrupt

• Founded Ford Motor Company and employed workers for $5 a day, wich was almost twice as much as any competitor.

• Critiziced for Anti semitism in his book „The International Jew“

„I will build a motor cars for the great multitude. It will be so low in priec that no man making a good salary will be

unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasures in God‘s greatest open

spaces.“ - Henry Ford

Ford Model T1908 - 1927

• Aka Tin Lizzie and the Flivver• Designers: Childe Harold Wills,

Joseph A. Galamb and Eugene Farkas

• Cost: $825 in 1908 to $300 in 1920s• Engine: 77 in³4 cylinder motor 20 hp

(15 kW) for a top speed of 45 mph• Innovations: steering wheel on the

left and enclosed engine and gears made very easy to operate

• Produced: 15 million• By 1918, half of all cars in America

were Model T's• To promote the car, Ford &

Guggenheim organized a cross country race, that the Model T easily won.

• First to Target a females as a potential market

Herny Ford and his car

National Highway System

• comprises approximately 160,000 miles

U.S. Route 66

• The Main Street of America, The Mother Road

• Planned by Cyrus Avery

• opened 1926, though signs did not go up until the following year.

• originally ran from Chicago, Illinois through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California before ending at Los Angeles for a total of 2,448 miles

• First highway to be completly paved• major path of the migrants who went

west• Decommissioned on June 27, 1985

Sources

• Wheels for the World, Douglas Brinkley, Penguine Books, 2004

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T• http://www.modelt.ca/background-fs.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_66• http://www.historic66.com/