Purchasing Department (Ford Motor Company) records subgroup, 1903-1946 (bulk 1921-1943)
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Ford Motor Company. Purchasing Department.
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Prior to Henry Ford II's post-World War II company reorganization, the purchasing division at Ford Motor Company was called the Purchasing Department. It was responsible for acquiring everything for the entire company, including raw materials, machinery, parts, and supplies, with yearly purchases in the hundreds of millions of dollars. After 1946, it became the Purchasing Division and was partly decentralized. From the description of Purchasing Department (Ford Motor Company) records...
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
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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...
