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And a while back, it did a few episodes about general motors.

And I talked about how William Durant and Alfred Sloan had a fundamentally different approach

from that of Henry Ford.

Ford was all about creating a vehicle that could be mass-produced and sold at a relatively

low cost year over year.

GM would focus more on developing different makes of cars aimed at different markets.

Or in other words, they wanted to sell a range of vehicles at a range of prices and with

a range of features.

But I realize I've never actually done an episode about Henry Ford or the famous Model

T. So we're going to do that now.

And this won't be a comprehensive series on the Ford Motor Company that will require

their own episodes.

But more about the early history of Henry Ford leading up to the design and release

and an eventual retirement of the Model T.

So William and Mary Ford of Dearborn, Michigan raised a pretty large family.

They had eight children, including Henry Ford.

It was born on July 30th, 1863.

That's when the Civil War was gripping the United States, which was in danger of splitting

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