My Forty Years with Ford by Charles E Sorensen
Reissued in paperback, this book provides an account of the Ford story from the birth of the Model T, the early conflicts with the Dodge brothers, the revolutionary announcement of the five-dollar day, and development of the moving assembly line, a concept that changed our world. It is a history of a business empire and the power of tragedy.
My story is about the Henry Ford I knew as well as any man alive or dead knew himIt is about the fabulous growth and preservation of the Ford Motor Company, which, in his shaken old age, not even its owner could destroy. It is about the creation and birth in that company of what has been the miracle of the Twentieth Century: the modern American industrial system of mass production with its moving assembly line. It is not the story of Charles Sorensen. It is, however, the story that I, Charles Sorensen, was privileged to see of Henry Ford and his works. It is a story of Mr. Ford's greatest success and his most tragic failure. - Charles E. Sorensen
Charles E. Sorensen (1881-1968) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and arrived in the United States in 1883. He attended school until the age of thirteen when he was apprenticed to a patternmaker in a Buffalo, New York, stove works. At seventeen, Sorensen moved to Detroit. He met Henry Ford in 1901 and began working as a patternmaker for Ford in 1905. Sorensen retired from Ford Motor Company in 1944.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814332795 |
| ISBN 10 | 081433279X |
| Title | My Forty Years with Ford |
| Author | Charles E Sorensen |
| Series | Great Lakes Books Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
| Year published | 2006-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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