Fordlandia rubber plantation photograph album, 1931.
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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...
Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil
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The plantations of Fordlandia and Belterra were two attempts by the Ford Motor Company from 1928 to 1945 to establish a permanent rubber plantation presence in Brazil. The goal of setting up the Ford Motor Company of Brazil was two-fold: to supply Ford's internal demand for rubber as well as to provide a better way of life for the Brazilians who lived and worked on the plantations. The plantations were testaments to the innovations of agriculture and industry related to commercial cultivation in...
Ford Motor Company. Photographic Dept.
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The Ford Motor Company rubber plantations at Fordlandia and Belterra had their genesis in Henry Ford's concern that a production cap set by British colonial producers of natural rubber in 1922 would lead to regularly increasing costs. Ford, considering investment offers from Brazil, sent Dr. Carl La Rue to the Amazon to investigate sites for a rubber plantation. La Rue recommended the Tapajos River valley. Eventually, a contingent of men led by Ford official W.L. Reeves Blakely selected a 2,906 ...
