Henry Ford was removed from the day to day operations of Ford Motor Company during WW2 under threat of the US government. Production at the Willow Run plant was taking to long to get on line (B24 Bombers) and the GOVERNMENT TOLD FORD they either needed to speed up the conversion or they would nationalize the corporation and put its production assets under government control. To comply with the government demands Henry Ford senior lost control of most of his vast corporate holdings and Charles Sorensen and Harry Bennett took over. Even with massive government contracts and many of Ford's plants held a models of efficiency (1 B24 and hour was produced at Willow Run and over 250,000 Jeeps and over 50,000 M4 (Sherman) tanks) the Ford Motor Company was nearly bankrupt at the end of the war and only the placement of Henry Ford II (grandson) as president did Ford regain its footing.
Ford didn't tell the government what they'd do, THE GOVERNMENT TOLD FORD WHAT TO DO. Under Roosevelt the federal government had near dictatorship like power of the US economy in WW2 and you either did what they demanded or you took it in the shorts.
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Today's Featured Article - Self-Starting Tractor - McCormick 10-20 - by Francis J. Robinson. I remember it very clearly even though it was almost 50 years ago and I was only about seven years old. My Dad had purchased a new Ford-Ferguson tractor and basic set of implements when he started farming just about the beginning of W.W.II. It was considered a pretty nice outfit for their 70 acre central Indiana grain and livestock farm. Dad spent several years during the war testing aircraft engines at Allison Engineering in Indianapolis working seven days a week on a twelve hour night sh
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