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Title Henry Ford : building cars for everyone / Pat McCarthy.
Author McCarthy, Pat, 1940-
Publication Info. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2002.

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 Purdy-Kresge Library Juvenile Biography  F75M3    CHECKED IN
Description 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Historical American biographies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Testing the quadricycle -- Henry Ford, farm boy -- Independence and marriage -- Race cars and business failures -- Ford pioneers the assembly line -- The Peace Ship -- War, trials, and retirement -- Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum -- The Twenties, the Thirties, and the Great Depression -- Labor problems -- The later years -- The legacy of Henry Ford.
Summary A biography of the American inventor and industrialist who is best known for making the automobile practical, through both his revolutionary assembly lines and his desire to make a car every working man could afford.
Subject Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 -- Juvenile literature.
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Automobile industry and trade.
Industrialists.
ISBN 076601620X
OCLC # 48398920
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