Ford also was inspired to create his revolutionary assembly line by watching the overhead ... During the bloody labor strife of 1937, three United Auto Workers organizers were beaten by company ...

Ford put these principles into play gradually over five years, fine-tuning and testing as he went along. In 1913, they came together in the first moving assembly line ever used for large-scale ...

It didn’t begin building autos until 1927, when the Model A began rolling off the line at both the Dearborn and Chicago plants. World War II: Chicago Assembly Plant shifts to tanks Ford’s ...