My grandfather worked 35 years as a machinist for Ford Mo Co, from the 1920s into the 1960s, he said Henry Ford was a great and a good man. Most people back in those days agreed with my Grandfather. People today should not judge Ford using 2024s mainstream PC standards, that makes no sense. We have no concept of who Ford was and what he accomplished. ~ Henry Ford was born in 1863, he built the largest, most modern manufacturing company in the world in his day. Henry Ford was a great man and should be remembered for his greatness in our day.
Love your stuff. HF was such an enigma/paradox/not sure what to call him, who I revered as a young man and reviled as a mature man. Now at 63, I feel sorry for him; everybody has some sort of damage, caused by failure, success, or both. Keep up the great work!! I'll be watching!!
The reason why Henry Ford was so successful, was because he was not greedy. Nowadays, they do not think that way they gouge people as much as they can to make a profit.
Henry is probably rolling in his grave at the thought of what's become of FoMoCo!!! He's probably saying "Oh fuck they're letting Tommy boy run my company in the ground!" (Jack Farley and actor Chris Farley"TOMMY BOY" were cousins) sharing a paternal grandfather....
The implication that the Model A added colors to the Ford line is wrong. The Model T in 1926 was offered in 4 colors and in 1927 was offered in 6 colors. Unfortunately the library I once had is now gone and with it I could give you the colors that still does not change the fact that the Model A did not "add colors" to the line of cars.
@@tomservo56954 Actually it was black "japan" that was the quickest drying paint which is why the Model T was reduced to one color so assembly speed could be increased and to cut down on space needed to store vehicles during drying the finishes.
Henry wanted to keep the car simple, functional and affordable. In 2024 the OPPOSITE mentality is true. Great idea for the big companies and bad for the little guy.
If you've read about Ford in the late 40's when HF II took over you realized how close Ford came to collapsing. HF II brought in an expert in the new science of efficiency, Ernest Breech. Imagine his horror when he discovered how the company was paying bills. At one point Henry, in one of his capricious fits, fired all of the accountants. Ernie was told that employees were forced to develop a formula whereby invoices were weighed to pay expenses. The system evidently worked fairly well.
You didn't mention that Henry funded the stock buyout by shipping unordered cars and parts to dealers and suppliers...C.O.D. A number of them went bankrupt.
Regardless of what anybody thinks in 2024. Without the likes of Ford, Chrysler, Carnegie Steel, and Standard Oil. We would not have the technology we have today!
🤣You're a riot! Even Walt Disney's employees had enough of that don't-like-it-here-go-somewhere-else line of thinking, and there were plenty of animation studios they could have gone to besides his. Read up on the 1941 strike, where news cameramen caught Disney nearly getting into a brawl with one of his top animators, Art Babbitt, who went on to join UPA (Gerald McBoing Boing, Mr. Magoo). Disney employees got their union, which still exists today.
You are an conceded narrator whom likes to judge harshly without ever living with henrys responsiblity to everything. Did you ever think of amy reason henry was a good person.
The model t was not a wood frame. And yes you could get then in more than one color. This information is inaccurate, leading me to question the validity of the rest of the video.
I studied the origins of Judaism and discovered things that would shock most people, however that doesn't mean we should take action against them, the way people thought and behaved 50-100 or even a thousand years ago should have no bearing on our actions today. While watching this I couldn't help but to think of Elon Musk, he seems to have some of the same overtones as Henry. Unlike Henry I hope Elon is able to change with the times and keep his ego in check.
