Successive design changes are made to stand out from the current crowd, that's all. Since Henry did not change his automobile, and people wanted to buy cars in the 1920's with a more modern look (as defined by not looking like the same car Ford had put out since 1908), other designs took hold. New competitors innovated on the design front to get more customers, while Henry didn't. Henry Ford made many innovations to the product and the pipeline. Two interesting ideas come to me about this.įrom what I've read, Henry Ford studied assembly lines at the Springfield Armory (which was first to create machines to make individual parts for guns, as well as first to allow non-skilled labor to assemble pieces together without involving a craftsman at all.) What's ironic is that two brothers who created and sold the first gasoline car (motorized carriage) were also in Springfield. Hobbyists-already busy enough building and improving their engines-wouldn't stop to learn how to carve wood. Early cars were simply modified carriages with motors attached by hobbyists. I want to chime in because your two posts combined are still valued less than pg's rebuttal, but I think you are more right.
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