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Baustelle Ford
DAC und Henry Ford Co.
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Die Investoren:
- William Maybury, Bürgermeister von Detroit
- William H. Murphy, Geschäftsmann und einer der grössten Holzhändler der USA
- Thomas W. Palmer, Unternehmer, ehemaliger Diplomat und Senator für den Staat Michigan
en:History of Ford Motor Company
- Ford Modell A Begriffsklärung
- Ford Modell A (1903)
- Ford Modell A (1928–1931)
Henry Fords Mitarbeiter
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- Clarence Williard Avery
- Irving Ruben Bacon
- Harry Herbert Bennett
- Fred Lee Black (Wills Sainte Claire)
- Robert Allen Boyer
- William John Cameron
- Raymond Hendry Laird
- Ernest Gustav Liebold
- Clifford Boles Longley
- Benjamin Basil Lovett
- Russell Hudson McCarroll
- Roy Donaldson McClure
- Alexander Y. Malcolmson
- Samuel Simpson Marquis
- Peter Edmund Martin
- Frank Charles Campsall
- James Joseph Couzens
- Burt John Craig
- Edward James Cutler
- Raymond C. und Evangeline Cote Dahlinger
- George Ebling
- Eugene Jeno Farkas
- Walter E. Flanders
- Edsel Bryant Ford
- Joseph A Galamb
- Carl Edvard Johansson
- Albert Kahn
- Ernest Carlton Kanzler
- (William Signius Knudsen) (25. März 1879 – 27. April 27, 1948); Generalleutnant
- Semon Knudsen (1912-1998)
- William Benson Mayo
- E. LeRoy Pelletier (1868–1938), Journalist, PR-Mann, H. Fords Sekretär
- http://www.skagwaystories.org/2010/09/05/e-leroy-pelletier/
- http://cameraworkers.davidmattison.com/getperson.php?personID=I82
- Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry
- Frederick Edwards Searle
- William Adams Simonds
- Howard Woodworth Simpson
- Roscoe Martin Smith
- Charles Emil Sorensen (7. September 1881-11. August 1968)
- William Bushnell Stout (1880-1956)
- Albert M. Wibel
- Childe Harold Wills (1878-1940)
Konzeptfahrzeuge
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- Liste von Mercury-Konzeptfahrzeugen
- Liste von Lincoln-Konzeptfahrzeugen
Briggs
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Briggs Mfg. Co. Briggs Manufacturing Co., 1909-1954; Detroit, Michigan
Associated Builders B.F. Everitt Co.; Chrysler Corp., Ford Motor Co.
Walter O. Briggs was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan on February 27, 1877 to Rodney D. Briggs and Ada (Warner) Briggs. At the age of 14 he joined his father, a locomotive engineer, at the Michigan Central Railroad where he worked in the rail-yard as a $20 per month laborer. He worked his way up to Michigan Central’s Detroit car shops where he worked as an upholsterer, eventually becoming foreman of the department.
Walter resigned in 1902 to work as a plant superintendent for the C.H. Little Co. a Detroit-based building materials supplier formed in 1887 by Charles H. Little. Two year later he resigned to take charge of the upholstery shop for a small Detroit carriage builder named B.F. Everitt Co. Byron F. (Barney) Everitt was a Canadian immigrant who had started his career as a carriage trimmer for Chatham, Ontario’s Wm. Gray & Sons Carriage Co. In another of the great coincidences in early automotive history, Wm. Gray & Sons supplied Henry Ford’s Windsor assembly plant with automobile bodies from 1906-1912.
In 1899 Everitt moved to Detroit where he opened the B.F. Everitt Co. at 63-65 Fort St. Their main business was the building and repair of horse-drawn vehicles, but early a few bodies for built Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford. One of Everitt’s first employees was Frederic J. Fisher, the eldest son of Norwalk, Ohio’s soon-to-be-famous Fisher Brothers. Fred left in 1904 to go to work for the C.R. Wilson Co. at about the same time that Walter O. Briggs joined B.F. Everitt as an upholsterer.
A contemporary of Everitt’s stated: "he has made, painted and trimmed more automobile bodies, twice over, than any other concern."
Due to Briggs’ previous experience in the field he was soon in charge of the shops, becoming vice-president and two years later, its president. Meanwhile Everitt and a former Ford Motor Co. production manager named Walter E. Flanders, had invested in the former Wayne Automobile Co./ Northern Mfg. Co. in the hopes of building their own automobile. With the help of the Wayne’s designer, William E. Kelly, and a third investor, William A. Metzger, the former sales manager of Cadillac, Everitt and Flanders formed a new company, the Everitt Metzger Flanders Automobile Co. in 1908 (E-M-F, 1908-1912). Production of the low-priced E-M-F commenced at the same time as the Model T, and sales were brisk.
However, the firm’s directors couldn’t get along and in 1909, Byron F. Everitt and William A. Metzger resigned from the board in order to build a competing automobile - the Everitt (1910-1912). Capital for the new venture was provided by the sale of the B.F. Everitt Co to Walter O. Briggs for $50,000. Following the sale, Briggs reorganized it as the Briggs Mfg Co. who at that time were providing upholstery for many early Detroit-based automakers such as Abbott, Chalmers, E-M-F, Ford and Paige.