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PREFACE Joost Dijkhuizen, Niels Wisse, and Bert Robben are three University of Utrecht students who studied at Miami University in 1997; the three of them attribute the quotation in the epigraph to the author. CHAPTER 1 / From Fordist Production . . . The chapter epigraph is drawn from Davies and Jones, “Memo of Conference with Mr. P. T. Martin, Mr. Harner and Mr. Dagner of the Ford Motor Co.,” p. 1. 1. Clarke, “Crisis of Fordism or the Crisis of Social-Democracy?” p. 82. 2. Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, p. 480. 3. Ibid., p. 275; Epstein, Automobile Industry, p. 336; Pound, Turning Wheel, pp. 44–45. 4. Forbes and Foster, Automotive Giants of America, pp. 1–3. 5. Epstein, Automobile Industry, p. 336; Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company , p. 275. 6. Rackham, “Memorandum of a Conference,” p. 3. 7. Anderson, “Memorandum of Conference,” p. 278. 8. MacManus and Beasley, Men, Money, and Motors, p. 56. 9. Rackham, “Memorandum of a Conference,” p. 4. 10. Lacey, “Statement of Arthur J. Lacey, Esq.,” pp. 132–33. 11. Arnold and Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, p. 24; Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, pp. 453–54. 12. Epstein, Automobile Industry, pp. 46–47; Gartman, Auto Slavery, p. 34. 13. Bornholdt, “Interview with Oscar C. Bornholdt,” pp. 2–3; Davies and Jones, “Memo of Conference with Mr. P. T. Martin, Mr. Harner and Mr. Dagner of the Ford Motor Co.,” p. 1; Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, p. 364. 14. Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, p. 455. 15. The most detailed information about the layout of Highland Park at the birth 357 NOTES of the moving assembly line comes from a book written in 1914 by Horace L. Arnold , who used the pen name Hugh Dolnar. Henry Ford liked Arnold’s writings and gave him access to company materials so that he could write the book about Highland Park. When Arnold died in 1915 with the manuscript not quite finished, Fay L. Faurote, an engineer who had worked for Olds and E. R. Thomas, completed the book. See Arnold and Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops. See also “Today ’s Final Line,” pp. 16–17. 16. Arnold and Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, pp. 112–15; Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, pp. 471–72. 17. Davies and Jones, “Memo of Conference with Mr. P. T. Martin, Mr. Harner and Mr. Dagner of the Ford Motor Co.,” p. 1. 18. Ibid.; Ford, in collaboration with Crowther, My Life and Work; Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, pp. 474–75; Nevins and Hill, Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933, p. 261; Sorensen, My Forty Years with Ford; Yanik, “Trucks Proved Their Worth,” p. 70. 19. Ford director of purchasing A. M. Wibel, quoted in Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, p. 475. 20. Nevins and Hill, Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933, pp. 391–92. 21. Arnold and Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, pp. 16, 19. 22. Nevins, Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company, pp. 244–45. 23. Kraft, Peace Ship. 24. Ervin, Henry Ford vs. Truman H. Newberry. 25. See, for example, Miller, Amazing Story of Henry Ford (1922); Marquis, Henry Ford (1923); and Graves, Triumph of an Idea (1934). 26. Arnold and Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, p. 16; Ford with Crowther , My Life and Work, pp. 216, 224, 248; Nevins and Hill, Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933, pp. 137–39. 27. Bennett, We Never Called Him Henry, pp. 47, 65, 164; Ford with Crowther, My Life and Work, pp. 206, 209–10. 28. Bernstein, Turbulent Years, p. 736; Ford with Crowther, My Life and Work, pp. 241, 245. See also Leonard, Tragedy of Henry Ford. 29. Nevins and Hill, Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933, pp. 311–22. 30. Louis Ferdinand, Rebel Prince, p. 261. 31. Herndon, Ford: An Unconventional Biography, p. 185. 32. See, for example, Richards, Last Billionaire, and Sward, Legend of Henry Ford, both published in 1948, a year after Ford’s death. CHAPTER 2 / . . . To Lean Production The chapter epigraph is drawn from “Arrival of Haute Carture,” p. 53. 1. Nevins and Hill, Ford: Expansion and Challenge 1915–1933, pp. 439–58. 2. Ibid., p. 457. 3. Chappell, “Transplants Ushered in Quality Revolution,” p. 8N-X. 4. “Why Detroit Cannot Compete,” p. 75. 5. Womack, Jones, and Roos, Machine...

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