This image shows the Ford ambulance line up in 1916 in France.
Ford was launched in a converted
factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John
Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge who would later found the Dodge Brothers
Motor Vehicle Company. During its early years, the company produced just a few
Model T's a day at its factory on
Based in
During the mid to late 1990s, Ford sold large numbers of vehicles, in a booming American economy with soaring stock market and low fuel prices. With the dawn of the new century, legacy healthcare costs, higher fuel prices, and a faltering economy led to falling market shares, declining sales, and sliding profit margins. Most of the corporate profits came from financing consumer automobile loans through Ford Motor Credit Company.
By 2005, corporate bond rating agencies had downgraded the bonds of both Ford and GM to junk status, citing high U.S. health care costs for an aging workforce, soaring gasoline prices, eroding market share, and dependence on declining SUV sales for revenues. Profit margins decreased on large vehicles due to increased "incentives" (in the form of rebates or low interest financing) to offset declining demand.
In the face of falling truck and SUV sales, Ford moved to introduce a range of new vehicles, including "Crossover SUVs" built on unibody car platforms, rather than body-on-frame truck chasses. Ford also developed alternative fuel and high efficiency vehicles, such as the Escape Hybrid. Ford announced that it will team up with Southern California Edison (SCE) to examine the future of plug-in hybrids in terms of how home and vehicle energy systems will work with the electrical grid. Under the multi-million-dollar, multi-year project, Ford will convert a demonstration fleet of Ford Escape Hybrids into plug-in hybrids, and SCE will evaluate how the vehicles might interact with the home and the utility's electrical grid. Some of the vehicles will be evaluated "in typical customer settings," according to Ford.
In
December 2006, the company raised its borrowing capacity to about $25 billion,
placing substantially all corporate assets as collateral to secure the line of
credit. Chairman Bill Ford has stated that "bankruptcy is not an
option", but economists have stated that the company's impending contract
renewal with the United Auto Workers in the summer of 2007 could be brutal. The
UAW has vowed to attempt to retain the jobs banks, a system which retains idled
workers on the payroll, rather than laying them off, in order to maintain
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It is a very nice and very rare non period photo that reflects a wonderful era of Ford 's automotive history in a wonderful way. It has a nice large format of ca. 8" x 10" (ca. 20 x 26 cm). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing.
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They make the perfect gift and are perfectly suited for framing. They will look gorgeous unframed and will be a true asset nicely framed with a border. They are a gorgeous and great asset in every home, workshop, workplace, restaurant, bar or club!
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