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Fordlandia

The reason there are environmental impact
studies done today, before breaking ground
on any major industrial endeavors. I'm not
a "greenie" but there are times when these
studies are necessary. Henry Ford was quite
the visionary at the beginning of the
industrial revolution.
 
He certainly wanted his business to be self contained.
 
He certainly wanted his business to be self contained.
yep

he helped/started Kingsford Charcoal too
using his wood scraps after cutting for his car bodies
wood from his own forest

(Firestone rubber/tires too, to a lesser level IIRC)

he didn't want much waste
or something he could make a $$$ off

he was a tight *** M-fer too, he didn't like changes
unless it was his idea !!!
he resisted going away from the Model T's for too long
his son Edsel was who came up with the Model A, 1928
engineering & design
(Edsel died young from some intestinal stuff IIRC)
It helped/changed the whole industry
(Henry fought it the whole way too)

saw a lot of stuff about him & his industry
on a documentary on History Channel IIRC

also the Dodge Bros. were a big part of his engineering
& parts designs in the early years

sort of went like this
what later that became Cadilac, was org. Henery Fords
1st automotive endeavor, he lost a law suit & had to sell
he org. refused to pay any royalties to the (French IIRC)
Automobile Co. Patents, prior patents, he used designs of "sort of"
& eventually, he won a later case, which made it far loser reg.s
on what was determined to be an Automobile, no more 1 party Royalties
everyone else was paying, all along...

just figured I'd throw tha in too
 
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Ford also had his own steel mill, the River Rouge complex in Dearborn. Unfortunately the Company couldn't make money with it and sold it to Severstal, a Russian company. They sunk boatloads of money into it and made it profitable.
Then they sold it to AK Steel.
 
Seems as though some of the most innovative-genius types throughout history have had mental quirks oddities. Some genius types, artists, scientists, etc. could have been autistic, asperger’s, bi-polar, OCD, etc. Old Hank IMO, had something, lol.
 
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