Soya beans being harvested on the Fordson estate at Boreham in Essex, 1934

Ford Country…in Rural Essex?

Between 1931 and 1947, Henry Ford financed an experimental farm in Essex to see if industrial American farming methods could be applied to British fields.
Jordan Motor Car Company

How Car Ads Started Selling Sizzle

In the 1920s car ads began changing. Specialists began to craft auto manufacturer's images solely to please their customers.
Ford Model T, 1908

Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism

Henry Ford’s newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published years of anti-Semitic articles, prompting Hitler to call him the “single great man.”