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from the nearest shell hole because of the lack of any consistent supply. Another example of improvisation on these light railways was the use of Ford Model T cars mounted on a rail chassis. The idea according to legend came from a Miss Bowen Cooke, the daughter of Charles Bowen Cooke, the Chief
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not only his own company but businesses throughout the economy, which followed the mass production principles that he introduced. The time required to produce a Ford Model T chassis shrank from 12 man-hours to an hour and a half.{202} With a mass market for automobiles, it paid to invest in expensive
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speeded up production. The Fisher Body Company, which made wood bodies in Canada for Ford cars, became a large Robertson customer; so did the new Ford Model T plant in Windsor, Ontario, which soon accounted for a third of Robertson’s output. Within five years of starting, Robertson built his own wire-drawing
The Great Economists Ten Economists whose thinking changed the way we live-FT Publishing International (2014)
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reliving the BBC sitcom The Good Life and rearing our own pigs. For businesses, division of labour has been central to production systems since the Ford Model-T car became the first automobile to be mass produced on moving assembly lines using pre-manufactured parts. More recently this has led to the growth
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’ concept (Marx) 62 financial decision making, biases and errors in 225–32 financial economics, work of Samuelson 187 First World War 95 Folbre, Nancy 206 Ford Model-T car, assembly-line production system 21 Foundations of Economic Analysis (Samuelson, 1947) 168, 169–70 Fox, Charles James 23 Freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner) 234 free
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Jamestown, New York. He definitely got something right because the next year, its Crescent adjustable spanner, or wrench, was being supplied along with each new Ford Model T, the first affordable assembly-line-produced car. The Model T car went on to become the biggest-selling car of all time, a record that
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motion-picture business, touring small towns and villages in rural areas of the South Island with a film projector mounted on the back of a Ford Model-T truck. They persuaded the townsfolk and villagers to cut a hole in the rear wall of their community halls and then reversed the truck up
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contain up to 10 percent alcohol, a blend that can be used without modification to the engine. Indeed, the very first mass-produced car, the Ford Model T, was designed to run on either fossil-fuel gasoline or alcohol, and several distilleries in the US converted crops into car fuel until Prohibition killed
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railroad companies, the limited market they served, the cheapness of the construction (which increased operating costs), and ultimately, after the war, the advent of the Ford Model T and other cheap cars. Yet for a while, the big railroads felt threatened by this crude competitor, not least because many interurbans were backed by
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highways. Interestingly, the authors of the key history of the interurbans suggest that they could have been as damaging to the conventional railroads as the Ford Model T, whose very invention stymied their development and killed them off: “Both [interurbans and the Model T] threatened the position of the railroad train as the
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thought of after years of observation and experience. Imagine if regulators demanded automatic daylight sensors or inflatable air bags in 1910, two years following the Ford Model T introduction. Not only were these needs not thought of; even the basic technology behind these capabilities wasn’t yet invented. The lesson here is that
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