Finance Staff (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1903-1955.

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Finance Staff (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1903-1955.

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The Finance Staff (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup is comprised of four series: Capital Investment Department, Appropriation Section records series, 1950-1955 (5 cubic ft.), Acc. 565; Cost Department records series, 1903-1953 (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 843; Defense Contracts Department records series, 1940-1953 (2.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 748; and General Accounting Department records series, 1925-1949 (69.2 cubic ft.), Acc. 124, Acc. 220, Acc. 453.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Ford Motor Company. Finance Staff.

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After World War II, Henry Ford II became president of Ford Motor Company, instituting reorganization, decentralization, and modernization on a massive scale. By 1946, the old Accounting Department, Auditing Department, and Disbursement Department were abolished, and a new Finance Division was created. On a company-wide level it exercised broad supervision of policies and procedures, furnished financial plans and programs, engaged in some cash management activities, and administered audits and re...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...