How Fierce is this - (BBC link) ?

[Roadkill]

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[Jo]

Thats really cool

[Incursus]

Fierce!

[F Body]

A little known fact is that in 1925 Ford Model T production reached the rate of 9,000 - 10,000 per day

Exact production figures weren't recorded, bear in mind that nearly all the components were made on site

[Andy]

Reckon we could do that today if we needed to? Or would it have to be built across over EU countries...

[F Body]

Quoting: Andy

Reckon we could do that today

Imagine making 50,000 wooden wheels each day

OK so they had masses of people, but nothing like todays automatic machinery

Must have had a large saw mill with plenty of trees being delivered

[Andy]

Quoting: F Body

Must have had a large saw mill with plenty of trees being delivered

That would have the tree huggers up in arms straight away.

[HardRockCamaro]

"Henry Ford's ultimate goal was to achieve total self-sufficiency by owning, operating and coordinating all the resources needed to produce complete automobiles.

Ford Motor Company owned 700,000 acres of forest, iron mines and limestone quarries in northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Ford mines covered thousands of acres of coal-rich land in Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Ford even purchased and operated a rubber plantation in Brazil.

To bring all these materials to the Rouge, Ford operated a fleet of ore freighters and an entire regional railroad company."

[FUBAR]

Pretty cool isn't it  Go Us!

I don't really have a 'combat' military history in my family but this story is quite pertinant because my Nan spent WWII building Spitfires  My Grandad was in the Home Guard because just before being posted to Jersey he went through the windscreen of a military truck & lost an eye.
He ended up in Communications Stations on the south coast.  I'm very proud of both of them for this.

On the other side of my Family (Mums side) my grandparents were too young to be involved, & one of my Great Grandfather's was a Conscientious Objector so he spent the whole war locked up.
Not sure about the rest.