Ford History
Added on 07-13-2006
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Initiated in 1938 Mercury automobile make gained considerable success. Formally the company was ruled by Edsel Ford but his authority was incomparable to his father’s. In fact, this period till the WW II start known in Ford history as stagnation. During the war the company was activated and loaded by military demands.
Between 1942 and 1947 passenger cars manufacturing was sharply stopped as Ford Company invested its efforts to military purposes. Enormous military production program initiated by Edsel Ford entailed in assembling 8 600 V-24 Liberator four-engine bombers, 57 000 engines for air-crafts and over 250 000 tanks, anti-tank mount added by other military machinery within less than 3 years.
Initiated in 1938 Mercury automobile make gained considerable success. Formally the company was ruled by Edsel Ford but his authority was incomparable to his father’s. In fact, this period till the WW II start known in Ford history as stagnation. During the war the company was activated and loaded by military demands.Between 1942 and 1947 passenger cars manufacturing was sharply stopped as Ford Company invested its efforts to military purposes. Enormous military production program initiated by Edsel Ford entailed in assembling 8 600 V-24 Liberator four-engine bombers, 57 000 engines for air-crafts and over 250 000 tanks, anti-tank mount added by other military machinery within less than 3 years.
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