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"The History of Ford Motor Company"

One of the best automobile producers in history, Ford, was established and incorporated in 1903. With a starting $28,000 investment from investors, including Horace and John Dodge, who were later founders of the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company, Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded Ford Motor Company. It became one of the world's most profitable and largest companies in the world. Currently, based on worldwide vehicle sales, Ford Motor Company is ranked as fourth largest automaker; and is also accounted as the largest company being controlled and managed continuously by a family for more than a hundred years.

The first few models were produced in Detroit, Michigan; and its entire model on the earlier years, were branded as Model A up to Model T. Model A was the first production in 1903. Earlier on, including the Model S In 1907, all vehicles were in black colour and Model S was the last right-hand drive vehicle produced. The first six-cylinder model was Model K and was dubbed at that time as "the silent cyclone" and "the gentleman's roadster". It was sold for US$2,800. In 1908, Ford sold to the public the latest production after the S Model, the Model T. It turned out to be a good time for Henry Ford as the car demand grew in spectacular number. They, then moved to a larger factory, to the Highland Park Plant and as the demand grew, they have innovated to produce vehicles at a target of more than a million a year.