In 1907, Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. Ford's engineers ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited, but even ...

but the Ford Motor Company, led by Henry Ford, revolutionised the motor industry. Between 1908 and 1927, the company produced 15 million ‘Model T’ cars. Mass production lowered production costs.