Ford’s solution was revolutionary, he significantly increased wages to $5 a day – far above the national average for workers.
As a result, the company experienced very high labour turnover, it was difficult to get people to stay. Working Practices of Henry FordĪ drawback of Ford’s assembly line was that the work was very monotonous and highly regulated, workers were only given a very limited time for breaks and they were metaphorically chained to their post. Such was its reliability that farmers bought the Model-T and converted it to work as a tractor. Despite their quirks, they were very popular with working families and farmers, who for the first time saw a motor car as a realistic proposal and not just the plaything of the rich. By 1921, the number of cars produced had risen to 1.25 million. In its first year of production, it sold 10,607 cars and for the next five years output roughly doubled until by 1914, a quarter of a million Model T cars were rolling off his assembly lines with Ford making a profit of $27 million.
But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.” – Henry Ford “My Life and Work” (1922) It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. “I will build a car for the great multitude. However, it was remarkably cheap and over the years, Ford constantly sought to improve the efficiency of the assembly line, enabling higher output and lower costs. The Model T had many limitations – no speedometer, no starter, no oil gauge, an idiosyncratic gear system, different sized front and back wheels and headlights which ran off a dynamo. The company developed the Model A, B, C, F, N before coming out with the famous Model T in 1908. He worked assiduously on the optimal components for a new car. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company was born with the backing of $28,000 from various investors. In the late 1890s, he quit Edison Illuminating Company to form his own motor car company. His testing was successful, and this enabled him to develop the quadricycle into a small car. It was working as chief engineer at Edison’s that he was able to work on a petrol drive quadricycle.
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