MR. HENRY FORD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 111, 1 August 1927, Page 1

MR. HENRY FORD

SIXTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY COLOSSAL BUSINESS By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright TCEW YORK, Saturday. The well-known millionaire motorcar manufacturer, Mr. Henry Ford, is celebrating hi s 64thbirht mbmn vkwn troit to-day. Mr. Ford announces that a new model car will shortly take the place of the famous model T, of which 15,000,000 have been constructed in the last 19 years. The salaries paid by the Ford concern to workers in that period totalled £394,000,000 and the materials purchased throughout the world were valued at £973.200,000.—A. and N.Z. Henry Ford was born at Greenfield near Detroit, Michigan, on July 30, 1863. At the age of 15, becoming tired of farm woik, he went to learn engineering and later worked for the Edison Illuminating Company. Meanwhile he tried to nro--2" de ~ motor-car, and by 1892 had his first model running. He kept improving a ? d in l? 98 induced capitalists to aid him by putting small sums into his modest business. However, his idea of mass P'' od n= t,on at low prices did not appeal nnd most of them withdrew Jhe E°™i at A e f r '. In 1903 Mr. Ford started the Ford Motor Co. at Detroit. The . ex P* nded so fast that of late years it has turned out from 1,000,000 to more than 2,000,000 cars a year, it employs more than 75,000 men