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The Roaring Twenties Automobile Travel/Creation of US Federal Highways/Route 66

The Roaring Twenties Automobile 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

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The Roaring Twenties Automobile Travel/Creation of US Federal Highways/Route 66

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  1. The Roaring TwentiesAutomobile Travel/Creation of US Federal Highways/Route 66 • Ford Company • Henry Ford • Model T • Highways • Route 66

  2. 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.

  3. 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“

  4. „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

  5. 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

  6. Herny Ford and his car

  7. National Highway System • comprises approximately 160,000 miles

  8. 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

  9. 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/

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