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The Henry Ford II World Center, also commonly known as the Ford World Headquarters and popularly known as the Glass House, [1] [2] is the administrative headquarters for Ford Motor Company, a 12-story, glass-faced office building [3] designed to accommodate a staff of approximately 3,000. The building is located at 1 American Road at Michigan ...
President of Ford Motor Company No. Name Took office Left office Notes 1 John S. Gray: June 17, 1903 October 22, 1906 2 Henry Ford: October 22, 1906 January 1, 1919 3 Edsel Ford: January 1, 1919 May 26, 1943 4 Henry Ford: May 26, 1943 September 21, 1945 5 Henry Ford II: September 21, 1945 November 9, 1960 6 Robert McNamara
Norfolk Assembly. Coordinates: 36°49′59.44″N 76°14′55.94″W. Norfolk Assembly was a Ford manufacturing plant that opened on April 20, 1925 [1] on the Elizabeth River, near downtown Norfolk, Virginia, eventually closing in 2007 after manufacturing more than 7.9 million cars and trucks over almost a century of production. [2]
Harry Bennett. Harry Herbert Bennett (January 17, 1892 – January 4, 1979), was a boxer, naval sailor, and businessman. From the 1920s through 1945, he worked for Ford Motor Company and was best known as the head of Ford’s "service department", the company's internal security agency. While working for Henry Ford, Bennett's union-busting ...
Ford Motor Company et al. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., 204 Mich 459; 170 NW 668 (1919), [1] is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a manner for the benefit of his employees or customers. It is often taught as affirming the ...
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 employees.
Hackett spent thirty years with the Grand Rapids-based office furniture company Steelcase. He joined Steelcase in 1981, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions. In 1994, Hackett was named CEO at age 39, making him the youngest leader in the history of the company. He held the position for nearly twenty years before retiring in 2014.
This allowed the Ford Motor Company to consolidate production of all three Ford Panther platform vehicles (the Ford Crown Victoria, the Lincoln Town Car, and the Mercury Grand Marquis) to a single assembly plant. The plant closed on September 15, 2011. The last Crown Victoria built by the remaining 300 employees was sent to Saudi Arabia.