History Of The Automotive Industry And Ford Motor Company

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With the decline in
both disposable and discrete income, the demand for new automobiles almost
stopped. This huge decrease in demand forced major cutbacks in spending,
factories were closed, employees were laid off, and production was almost
halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business.
The United States time of prosperity had ended.

WWII

During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power
in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When
Hitler invaded France and started the war, the United States was quick to
respond. The United States started producing many different pieces of war
equipment. The auto industry was the first to respond by reopening many of
there shut down plants and producing troop transport vehicles, tanks,
planes and just about anything else the government wanted. Under the
direction of President Roosevelt, Ford Motor Company built a huge assembly
plant in Michigan to produce B-29 ...

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felt a huge increase in the
price of gas. This marked the end of the muscle car era and the beginning
of the compact and sub-compact car era. While the big three were hurrying
to release a car with better gas mileage, Honda introduced the first
compact car in the United States. In the early 1970s, Ford introduced the
Pinto. In hurrying to get a compact car on the market, the quality people
had come to expect had been jeopardized. The Pinto was one of the most
unsafe cars ever built, and it took Ford a long time to live that mistake
down.
It wasn't until the 1980s that the big three had changed almost all
of their cars to a smaller better gas mileage type car. Ford had ...

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