The Triumph of an Idea

The Triumph of an Idea: The Story of Henry Ford  (1934)  by Ralph Henry Graves

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934 OCLC 1248769all editions

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The advent of the automobile brought a clash of industrial ideas. Should the new vehicle be high-priced, obtainable only by the wealthy? Or should it be a vehicle of service to all humanity—within reach of the pocketbook of EVERY family? Henry Ford's answer was the Model T, which became known as the "Universal Car" and of which he manufactured more than 15,000,000.

With the Ford car available to the millions, there sprang up a nation-wide demand for better roads. The Ford car proved a great SOCIAL factor in the development and growth of the American people. And the story of the founding, success, and growth of the Ford Motor Co., giving the world, as it did, its first great picture of modern mass production, is an industrial epic which this volume attempts to tell.

It is a story of facts that less than a generation ago would have been a fairy tale.

Illustrated by 52 photographs.

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HENRY FORD

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TRIUMPH OF AN IDEA

THE STORY OF HENRY FORD

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Ralph H. Graves

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

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Garden City, New York

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

1934

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PRINTED AT THE Country Life Press, GARDEN CITY, N.Y., U.S.A.

COPYRIGHT, 1934
BY RALPH H. GRAVES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

FIRST EDITION

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CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
I	A Lone Pioneer	1
II	The Beginning of an Industry	16
III	Performance and Profits	33
IV	The "Universal Car," Model T	49
V	Wartimes and Afterward	67
VI	The Rebuilding of an Industry	98
VII	A "Universal Car" Again: The V-8	126
VIII	Dearborn, the Wonder Town	160

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