Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Flickr: The Henry Ford's Photostream As near as I can tell, the Henry Ford museum at Greenfield village has decided to put hundreds of archive photos from their photobooth up on Flickr. These date back up to the 1930s.
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Even in the early heydays, Henry Ford was fond of using plants like hemp and straw to reinforce plastic components for his cars. Now bioplastics are back and turning up in cell phones, forks, and more. Ford Motors started trying out soy-based seat foam a few years back, and is now expanding its palette [...]
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Even in the early heydays, Henry Ford was fond of using plants like hemp and straw to reinforce plastic components for his cars. Now bioplastics are back and turning up in cell phones , forks , and more. Ford Motors started trying out soy-based seat foam a few years back, and is now expanding its palette of plant plastics. It's a small step, but the 2010 Ford Flex will...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is working to make its photographic collections more widely accessible.
Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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Ford Factory Workshop Service Repair Manuals (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The only viable home for the world's largest stove, now sitting on the State Fairgrounds, has to be the Henry Ford ("Heat on to find world's largest stove a home," Nov. 1).
Lean Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
By David Meier : In this LinkedIn Group discussion , a member posted this question: "In the book TPS Taiichi Ohno gives in chapter 5 praises to Henry Ford. He refer to Henry Ford his book “Today and Tomorrow” written in 1926. Henry Ford was at his peak in 1926. In the following years, as Taiichi Ohno written, Ford faced failure and discouragement....
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
GARDENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Carroll Shelby Foundation is offering 66 signed copies of “Go Like Hell – Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans.” The critically acclaimed book tells the remarkable story of how Carroll Shelby helped Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca and the Ford company defeat mighty Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le...
The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... the innovation trump mere exploitation? Isn't comparing Miller to Boras this like comparing Henry Ford and Lee Iacocca? Wait, that's not even fair. Iacocca at least developed the Mustang. Isn't that like comparing Ford and the CEO of Toyota? If there's an automobile Hall of Fame Ford's in it. The CEO of Toyota isn't. Another perspective comes from NBC commenter Simon...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
The names of some of his former customers read like a who's who of Detroit notables: Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca, Coleman Young and Cardinal Adam Maida.
The La Carrera Panamericana... (Free subscription) | yesterday
... had to say about this amazing and unique ride; It’s long been known that Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were camping enthusiasts, motoring out into the wilderness for a good ol’ time (and, likely, leaving the wives at home). But did they build RVs to serve that purpose? Allegedly, Firestone did, and one of them recently turned up in South Carolina on a...
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | yesterday
I planned to end this blog to focus on new business opportunities. An avalanche of protests from unhappy readers buried that idea. Several of the protests came from Washington, DC. At the moment I am reading Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City . A quote from the book: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century explorers and missionaries...
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The indoor healing garden at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is thriving after being completed only 7 months ago by interior landscape firm, Planterra. The installation is a significant therapeutic landscape within a major healthcare facility. Photographs, a white paper and a video of the hospital CEO, Gerard Van Grinsven discussing the gardens are available at http://www.planterra.com/media/henryford/...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
After Henry Ford popularized the moving belt manufacturing idea, mass production took on a different function: that of being the grinding mill for a consumerist society. Industrialized production became the supplier of mass goods for a use-now-discard-later mentality of materialistic utilization, so therefore manufacturing per se became highly organized, including the storage of materials...
