The Ford Trifecta
The Henry Ford, Dearborn Michigan 19-21 August 2016 We spent a couple of days visiting the factory, the museum and the living museum. The Ford Rogue Factory Tour With some help from the technical magazines he read, Henry Ford worked on cars in his spare time. His first car was the Ford Quadricycle Runabout which he built in 1896 with the help of his like minded friends. The Ford Quadricycle in Henry's shed. He had to knock a hole in the wall to get it out as it didn't fit through the door . Henry’s vision was that he would make a car that everyone could afford that was robust and reliable. After his first company failed he rebuilt his reputation with a race car. Henry won the ten mile race at Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1901 Ford Sweepstakes race car. Henry's race car Model T In the beginning cars were made by craftsmen, a group of men would work on one part of the car and then move onto the next car. When Henry Ford first started ma...