Beyond the Model T: The Other Ventures of Henry Ford
- ISBN-10
- 081432682X
- ISBN-13
- 9780814326824
- Category
- Businessmen
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Author
- Ford Richardson Bryan
Description
New to this edition are chronicles of factory and general hospitals, nursing schools and services, health clinics, and a research institute established by Henry Ford, and the more than a dozen commissaries Ford operated, selling a wide assortment of items to Ford employees and their families from pillow cases to children's shoes.
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