Auto Review Ford USA cars part 1 - up to 1948 Album

Here we have the first part of the story of the Ford Motor Company in the USA; cars and car-derived vans or pickups made from the beginning, up to 1948. A large part of this account concerns Henry Ford himself, including the first 40 years of his life, before the Ford Motor Co was created. Our coverage in this publication ends in 1948, the year after Henry Ford died. He had already reluctantly relinquished control of the company to his grandson, Henry Ford II. Edsel Ford, Henry’s only son, had died in 1943, broken by his father’s decades of humiliation. This publication also considers Henry Ford’s pacifism and isolationism, his relationship with the thug Harry Bennett and the production of Ford aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s.