Finance Division (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1901-1949.

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Finance Division (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1901-1949.

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The Finance Division (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup is comprised of five series: Administration Building Third Floor Vault records series, 1901-1948 (28 cubic ft., 1 oversize boxes, 22 microfilm reels), Acc. 235; Auditing Department records series, 1923-1948 (24.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 379, Acc. 391; Operations Accounting Department records series, 1933-1951 (6 cubic ft.), Acc. 409, Acc. 777, Acc. 1885; Vice President of Finance records series, 1917-1948 (11.2 cubic ft.), Acc. 459, Acc. 802; and Rouge Automotive Manufacturing Operations Expense Budget records series, 1947-1949 (1 cubic ft.), Acc. 1920.

70.6 cubic ft., 1 oversize boxes, 22 microfilm reels.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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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 Division.

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Prior to World War II, the Accounting Department, Auditing Department, and Disbursement Department managed Ford Motor Company's financial operations. After Henry Ford II's reorganization, a Finance Division was created to provide general supervision and assistance to , the newly decentralized financial units within the operating and staff divisions as well as more general financial and accounting support to the company as a whole. The Finance Division included a Treasurer's Office, a Controller'...

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...