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KING HENRY by DOUGLAS GALBRAITH Harvill Secker, 320pp, GBP 16.99
HENRY FORD, WHOSE FASCINAtion with machines began when he was ten with a stationary steam engine on his family's Michigan farm, introduced the Model T to America in 1908. By 1914 he had sold 250,000 and, by 1918, every other car in America was a Model T. In 1921 there were more than 13 million of them on the roads.See the full content of this document
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Book Review: King Henry: Lost Tycoon
Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that in Douglas Galbraith's novel, Ford is shown as a man confident of making more cars, and money, than anyone. If he took a fancy to you, he'd give you a car, because no-one was counting.
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