Betty Ford

Paul Walker's daughter, Meadow Walker, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that manufactured the car her father died in. Two years after his accident, "The Fast and Furious" star's daughter is suing Porsche, stating that the vehicle he was traveling in was unsafe and lacked certain safety features she believes could have saved her father and his friend Roger Rodas. According to TMZ, copies of the suit state that Walker's car lacked important safety features that could have…

the late 1960’s Japan and Germany were producing numerous vehicles to compete against American made cars. Ford motor company wanted to produce a subcompact car to meet the threat from abroad head on so Ford came up with the Ford Pinto. These cars were made to be affordable and domestic, in order for a large quantity of Americans to be able to afford them. To accelerate product production Ford “decided to compress the normal drafting board to showroom time of about three and a half years into…

Ford was a very successful man, as you all may know or not he was a very good engineer which led him to his amazing company. Henry Ford helped society by making and designing cars, as he also followed in his father’s footsteps. As we can imagine all the hard work and dedication Henry Ford must of put into all these cars, trucks, and jeeps that we so thankfully drive today Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1836 in a clearing in Michigan woods. They had came from Ireland (Lacey 4). Ford was only a…

Looking Back: Caterpillar's First Motor Grader Caterpillar first became involved in the motor grader industry in 1926, when the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota released a grader featuring a 2-ton Caterpillar crawler tractor. This grader – called No.4 Auto Patrol – which was rated at 27 horsepower, and had hand-operated blade controls – sold successfully. As a result of No.4 Auto Patrol's sales success, the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company developed another…

Industrial Revolution was the greatest positive reform in American society. Some of the most well known people in history made a huge impact during the Industrial Revolution. For example Henry Ford created the assembly line which allowed automobiles to be produced quicker and made traveling cost a lot less and become more convenient. Another example is Thomas Edison who made electricity available to us. Although the Industrial Revolution helped other countries. It had the greatest impact in…

the 1920s partied, gambled, and built amazing cars. The United States won World War I and was in an economic boom. Most people were wasting money, but some people invested into young industries. One of these was the car industry. Companies such as Ford, Dodge, Rolls Royce, and Duesenberg built new technology for cars and more. Even though cars were being built in the 1890s and early 1900s, it was not until the late teens and early 1920s that cars became widely available and had more improvements…

Armor and weaponry The U.S.S. Monitor was armed with two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores located in a 20 foot in diameter iron turret that could spin 360 degrees. The turret, which was covered in eight inches of iron plates was rotated by a vertical shaft that was connected to a 25 horsepower steam engine through a gear system. The rotation of the turret was controlled by one man under the deck. Over all the turret was nine feet high and weighed 120 tons. The cannons fired through oval gunports…

Henry Ford’s Impacts on Mobilization A major start of the automobile was Henry Ford. He always wanted to help make a way for the middle class to have some of the luxuries of the upper class. His way was the Ford car. One of Henry’s greatest quotes from the book Who Was Henry Ford stated “To do for the world more than the world does for you-that is success” (Michael Burgan 61). This was Henry’s overall goal in life and he thoroughly finished it by allowing people to become more mobile and…

staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford is often referred to as the father of the automotive industry. Although that is not the truth, he did, however, change the industry forever for the better. With his invention of the Assembly line, it would change cars all over the world. Ford and his motor company were one of the most successful motor companies of the early nineteen hundreds. Henry Ford and his invention of the Assembly Line was something that…

including General Motors Technical Center, the United States Army Detroit Arsenal, home of the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), St. Johns Macomb and Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, Chrysler as well as the headquarters of Big Boy Restaurants…