File 001 · Category Openers
Record 002 · Transport · 1908
08.02.TFord Model T
Ford Motor Company
“The car that put the world on wheels and invented modern mass production.”
A motor car for the great multitude.
Not the first automobile, but the first one ordinary families could buy, repair, and drive off-road. Moving assembly line (1913) collapsed cost and cycle time.
Defined 20th-century mobility, suburbia, and industrial method.
Filed notes
- Moving assembly line applied at scale
- Vanadium steel durability
- Left-hand steering becoming standard
Units. 15 million (1908–1927)
SIC
3711
Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies
NAICS
336110
Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
