Henry ford started to
manufacture automobiles in the year 1896in his garage he named his first four
wheeler as quadricycle, and then he started his company which was named Detroit
automobile company. He re-named the company to Henry ford company in1901. The
company’s policy was value for money. After the company went under some
financial problems he left his company with 900 dollars and rights to his name
. With the help of his acquaintance alexander y malcomsom he asked him to fund
a new automobile company. malcomsom started investing in for and the company
name was ford and malcomsom. They had to purchase many parts for their
automobile and then they went overboard on expenses so malcomsum was
constrained to his exiting coal business so he asked his uncle and a friend
john s gray who was president of a German savings bank. He asked his gray’s
help because this would attract many investors.
June 16 1903 ford company was incorporated
with 12 investors and a total of 1000 shares were created out of which 51% of
shares were owned by malcomson (255 shares) and ford (255 shares).
The following year the
company made a profit of $37000. This was quite a start to the company which
had no idea what would the future of the company.
Second year the company
made almost 300% growth in the company and the total income that year was
recorded 300000$.this was year1095 and there was lot of fights going on between
malconson and henry as malconson was only a investor as he had to manage his
coal business , ford was working day and nights to make a company he dreamt of
this fight was won by ford as gray supported ford and malconson had to sell his
shares to henry ford . this was just not it there was a sudden incident in the
year 1906 which not only changed the face of the company. This was the death of
gray . this put an end to gray’s president post and henry ford became the
president of the company . There was also a case which was registered against
ford for patents for gasoline run automobiles .this case was later dismissed in
the year 1911 after many years of fighting in the court.
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