Document titled "Seattle Drives Ford: A Century of Cars and a Ci…

(9'25 [gmdtsdyiau ago. (IVs/1w In June 1903. Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. His goal: to build an automobile that anyone could drive and everyone could afford. Ford sold his rst car one month later. and started using C letters of the alphabet to designate each new model. 170:. Henry Ford envisioned a national market for his cars. and a national system of production and sales. Seattle would play a leading role In 1907, Ford registered for business in Washington State. Ayear later, re company was selling and servicing the brand-new Model T in Seattle from a building on Capitol Hill. Henry Ford himself came to Seattle in 1909 to promote his revolutionary cars and to cheer the winners of the rst-ever transcontinental automobile race as they crossed the nish line at the University of Washington. The winning car: Fords Model T. cgaattfe: bubs; A CENTURY OF CARS AND A CIT you I put Lmenca on 7555A. 9 introduced the Model T. It was strong. versatile, ,le, Built on the wonds rst moving assembly crs who were paid at least $5 a day, Ford's er changed American life. .2. car for the masses had become a reality. Ford built the rst automotive assembly plant on the Coast in Seattle, incorporating the moving assembly lm: process that he pioneered earlier that year in Detroit. For the next two decades. Ford workers at two Seattle plants assembled thousands of automobiles sold to drivers from Alaska to the Columbia River and as far east as Montana. Ford automobiles were a xture on Northwest streets. And 50 years after its founding, Ford designed the Seattle-He )O(l, an automotive tribute to the jet city. Seattle Drives Ford celebrates the cars and the company that made Seattle Ford country. A.