met,
Financial system at present inadequate,
Firestone, Harvey S.,
Flat Rock plant,
Floor space for workers,
Flour-milling,
Foodstuffs, potential uses of,
Ford car--
the first, No. 5,000,000,
the second, introduction of,
in England in 1903,
about 5,000 parts in,
sales and production--_See_ "Sales"
Ford, Henry--
Born at Dearborn, Mich., July 30, 1863,
mechanically inclined,
leaves school at seventeen, becomes apprentice at Drydock Engine
Works,
watch repairer,
works with local representative of Westinghouse Co. as expert in
setting up and repairing road engines,
builds a steam tractor in his workshop,
reads of the "silent gas engine" in the _World of Science_,
in 1887 builds one on the Otto four-cycle model,
father gives him forty acres of timber land,
marriage,
in 1890 begins work on double-cylinder engine,
leaves farm and works as engineer and machinist with the Detroit
Electric Co.,
rents house in Detroit and sets up workshop in back yard,
in 1892 completes first motor car,
first road test in 1893,
builds second motor car,
quits job with Electric Co.
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