The company was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, who created it, gettingbusiness development $ 28,000 from five investors. Ford has gained notoriety asthe world's first car assembly has applied the classical belt.
First received massive recognition model, manufactured by the company, became a Ford Model T, produced in the years 1908-1926.
In the late 1920s with the company leadership of the Soviet Union signed an agreement on assistance in the construction of car plant in Nizhny Novgorod. A number of cars and trucks of the company "Ford" at that time served as prototypes for the first production models of the new Soviet automobile GAZ-A and GAZ-AA.
In the late 1930s, the company did not enjoy the confidence of the U.S. militarybecause of the pro-Nazi sympathies unconcealed founder [3] [4] [5]. However,with the U.S. entry into World War II the company began production of army trucksand jeeps (not my design - Ford GPW was adapted version of the Willys MB),served in the allied tankostroitelnoy U.S. program.
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