00:00The Ford Model A, or A-Class, was the first automobile marketed by Ford, with 1750 units built between 1903 and
00:071904.
00:08Historically, Henry Ford at the controls of his first Ford quadricycle, presented on June 4, 1896.
00:15Henry Ford, 1863 to 1947, began his industrial career in 1891 at Thomas Edison's General Electric in Detroit, as
00:24self-taught chief mechanical engineer.
00:26On June 4, 1896, at the age of 32, he successfully presented his first prototype automobile, the Ford quadricycle.
00:34which he designed himself in the workshop of his home at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit.
00:40Powered by a 4-horsepower, water-cooled, two-cylinder pure ethanol engine with a gearbox
00:46two reports, for a top speed of 32 km/h, on display since at The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.
00:51The first German Emmler type P engines from 1887 were fitted to the first Panhard and Lovassor type A cars of 1890.
01:00After founding his first automobile manufacturing company, the Detroit Automobile Company, on August 5, 1899,
01:07which became the Henry Ford Company in 1901, and achieved great media success in the United States by winning the race
01:13automobile racing circuit,
01:15The Detroit Grand Prix, with his Ford 999, driven by Barney Oldfield, was founded on June 16, 1903.
01:23current Ford Motor Company industry, in a former cab factory in Detroit.
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