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Do you know anyone who owns a Ford car?

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These are brand new Ford Focus cars.

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What do you think the very first Ford car looked like?

Who made the first Ford?

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The story of the Ford

motorcar starts with

Henry Ford.

Henry Ford was born in

America on July 30th

1863 - 150 years ago.

He died in 1947.

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When Henry was a little boy he

lived with his family on a farm.

He was interested in how things

worked and always wanted to

know how things were made.

Henry Ford aged two years

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As he grew older he

knew that he wanted

to invent a machine

that would make life

easier for everyone.

When he was thirteen he saw a steam engine

for the first time.

He had never seen a ‘horseless carriage’

before and he was very excited.

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From then on he was determined to design and make

his own horseless carriage - but where would he start?

When Henry was 16 he left home

to work as an apprentice

machinist in the city of Detroit.

He worked very hard and by the

time he was 28 years old he had

become an engineer.

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On June 4th 1896, after two years of experiments

in his tiny workshop behind his house, he had achieved

what he had set out to do. He had built a petrol

powered motor car.

Henry’s workshop where he built his Quadricycle.

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He called his vehicle the ‘Quadricycle’

because it ran on four bicycle tyres.

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The Quadricycle had an engine and a fuel tank.

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Later, in 1901, Henry built his first racing car and when he entered it in a race he won first place.

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The passenger on the footboard would lean so that his weight stopped the car tipping over on bends.

Winning the race made him famous.

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In 1903, when he was 40 years old, Henry Ford

founded the Ford Motor Company, where he began

to make cars. Ford cars are still being made today.

At that time cars were very expensive because they were all built by hand for individual customers.

Henry Ford believed that if he could make cars less expensive more people would buy them.

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1970To begin with, cars were very expensive because they

took a long time to make but then Henry’s dream

came true - he invented a way of making cars that

would make them the cheapest cars ever made.

Fitting the engine to the

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His idea was to use a moving assembly line to build

his cars. That meant that as the cars were moved

along, different workers worked on different parts of

the cars until one car was finished then another, then

another.

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How did his idea work?

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First the chassis was built on the lower level of the

production line.

The chassis was a strong steel frame that other parts of the car (the wheels and engine) were attached to.

The body of the car was made separately on the upper

level.

The chassis was moved along under the chute ready for the body of the car to be

fitted to it.

When the body was ready, it travelled down the chute to a

hoist.

The hoist picked up the bodyand lowered it onto the chassis with the engine already fitted and bolted

into place.

Then all the extra bits were fitted – the windscreen,

headlights and mudguards.

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chassis

Once the car was complete it was ready to be driven away.

Using Henry Ford’s new idea a car could be made in just one hour!

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These pictures show the the cars on the production line.

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1970Henry Ford began using letters of the alphabet to name the new models. His most famous model was the Model T which became known as Tin Lizzie.

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Tin Lizzie was

easy to drive on

rough roads and

was easy to look

after and

repair.

All Tin Lizzies were black. Henry Ford

said that customers could have any

colour, as long as it was black.

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1970Tin Lizzie became the most popular car ever made and people loved it because it was a car they could afford to buy. Henry Ford said that he wanted everyone to be able to buy his cars, not just those who had lots of money.

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1970The First Model-T (Tin Lizzie) had been built in 1908.By 1913, one thousand cars were being made every day in Henry Ford’s factory.

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1970Tin Lizzie wasn’t perfect but people loved the car. For many of them it was the first car they ever owned but there were a few problems…..

The driver’s door was hard to open.

When going at slow speeds, the headlamps dimmed so the driver had to rev the engine to see what was ahead of him on a dark night. Revving the engine made the headlamps brighter so they gave more light.

The fuel tank was under the front seat so, to see how much fuel was left in the tank, the driver had to take everything off the front seat, lift the cushion up and stick a ruler into the fuel tank then pull it out again to see whether there was any fuel left.

The starting handle could fly round and had been known to break arms!

The boy is using the starting

handle to start the car.

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1970Tin Lizzie changed the way people travelled…….

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1970In those days there were no seat belts, air bags, no heater, no speedometer, no windscreen wipers, no electric or heated windows, no rear view mirror and no side windows but, as Henry Ford said …………….

Old Dobbin, the family coach horse, weighs more than a Ford car but has only a

fraction of the strength of a Ford car. He can’t go as fast or as far. He costs more to feed and to keep healthy and

almost as much to buy! Why choose a horse when you can choose a Ford instead?

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