Ford Motor Company Timeline

1903 Ford Model A is First Produced
The original Ford Model A was the first car produced by Ford Motor Company, beginning production in 1903. Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago, Illinois became the first owner of a Model A on Ju...
1904 Ford Model B is First Produced
Ford Model B was an upscale touring car introduced in 1904. It was Ford's first car to use the front-engine layout, with a large 24 hp 4-cylinder engine positioned at the front behind a c...
1904 Ford Model C is First Produced
The Ford Model C was introduced in 1904 and was a version of the first Ford Model A with more modern look, slightly more powerful engine and 15 cm (6 inches) longer wheelbase. It was the ...
1905 Ford Model F is First Produced
The Ford Model F is an automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. It was a development of the Model A and Model C, but was larger, more modern, and more luxurious. It was a four-seate...
1906 Ford Model K is First Produced
Ford Model K was an upscale automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. It was introduced in 1906 and replaced the earlier Model B. The model K was aimed at the top end of the market a...
1906 Ford Model N is First Produced
The Ford Model N was an inexpensive automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company. It was introduced in 1906 as a successor to the Models A, C and F as the company's inexpensive entry-lev...
1907 Ford Model R is First Produced
The Model R was a higher trim level of the Model N with a larger body and wheels covered by full cycle fenders. An oil lamp was also added, and $150 separated the Model R from the $600 ba...
1908 Ford Model T is First Produced
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and Flivver) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as t...
1926 Sep 25 Henry Ford Announces 5 Day Work Week
No industrialist enjoyed upsetting the apple cart more than Henry Ford. In 1914 he announced that he would pay $5 a day to his workers, double the going rate. With the extra cash, Ford re...
1927 Ford Model AA is First Produced
Ford Model AA is a truck from Ford. As the Model T and TT became obsolete and needed to be replaced, Henry Ford began initial designs on the Model A and Model AA in 1926. Basic chassis la...
1929 Ford Custom is First Produced
The Ford Custom is a car model name that has been used by the Ford Motor Company both in the United States and Canada from the 1930s to 1972. For the 1949 model year, the Custom nameplat...
1932 Ford Köln is First Produced
Ford Köln is an automobile from the Cologne, Germany plant of the Ford Motor Company that was in production from 1932 to 1935. It was the German version of the Ford Model Y. The name came...
1932 Ford Model Y is First Produced
The Model Y was the first Ford specifically designed for markets outside the United States of America, replacing the Model A in Europe. The car was powered by a 933 cc, 8 (RAC)hp Ford Sid...
1933 Ford Rheinland is First Produced
The Ford Rheinland was an automobile built by Ford of Germany that was in production from 1933 to 1936. The name comes from the German region of the Rhineland. In total 5575 of them were...
1935 Ford CX is First Produced
The Ford CX was a car produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1935 to 1937. During that period 96,553 cars were produced. It was powered by an 1172 cc Ford Sidevalve engine.
1935 Ford Eifel is First Produced
Ford Eifel was a car manufactured by Ford Germany and Ford Hungary between 1935 and 1940. It was derived from the Ford Model C platform, and is related to the contemporary Ford Anglia and...
1935 Ford Model 48 is First Produced
The Model 48 was an update on Ford's V8-powered Model 40A, the company's main product. Introduced in 1935, the Model 48 was given a cosmetic refresh annually, begetting the 1937 Ford befo...
1937 Ford 7W is First Produced
The Ford 7W Ten was a car from Ford built in the United Kingdom between 1937 and 1938. The car was an updated version of the Model C Ten with the same 1172 cc engine and used the same tr...
1937 Ford De Luxe is First Produced
Ford Motor Company introduced its De Luxe Ford line in 1938 as an upscale alternative to bridge the gap between its standard Ford line and luxury Lincoln offerings. The "Deluxe" name was ...
1938 Ford 7Y is First Produced
Ford 7Y is a car from Ford built in the United Kingdom between 1938 and 1939. It was officially marketed as a Ford "Eight", and was a rebodied and slightly larger version of the Ford Mod...
1938 Ford Prefect is First Produced
The Ford Prefect is a line of British cars produced by the UK section of the Ford Motor Company, and a more upmarket version of its direct siblings the Ford Popular and Ford Anglia. It wa...
1939 Ford Anglia is First Produced
The Ford Anglia was a British car from Ford in the UK. It was related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 a...
1939 Ford Model 91 is First Produced
The Ford Model 91 was a car made by the British Ford in 1939 only and was the last of the British pre war V-8 range that had started with the V8 18 in 1932. In total 1878 were made. For t...
1939 Ford N Series is First Produced
The first of the 'N Series' of Ford tractors was the 9N. It included the first three-point hitch system on tractors, in the United States (Ferguson had used it on the Ferguson-Brown tract...
1939 Ford Taunus is First Produced
Ford Taunus was a range of family cars sold by Ford in Germany and other countries. Models from 1970 onward were similar to the Ford Cortina in the United Kingdom. The model line was n...
1942 Ford 2GA is First Produced
The Ford 2GA was a car produced by the Ford Motor Company in 1942. This car appears to have been produced only in 1942, coming stock with a 90 hp, 6 cylinder engine. It was a two door pa...
1947 Ford Pilot is First Produced
The Ford Pilot was a large car from Ford introduced in August 1947. It was effectively replaced in 1951 with the launch of Ford UK's Zephyr Six and Consul models, though V8 Pilots were st...
1948 Ford F-Series is First Produced
The F-Series is a series of full-size pickup trucks from Ford Motor Company sold for over five decades. The most popular variant of the F-Series is the F-150. It was the best-selling vehi...
1948 Ford Vedette is First Produced
The Ford Vedette was a large car manufactured by Ford France SA in their factory in Poissy from 1948 to 1954. Introduced at the 1948 Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris, it was designed enti...
1950 Ford Zephyr is First Produced
The Ford Zephyr is a car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United Kingdom. Between 1950 and 1972, it was sold as a more powerful six-cylinder saloon to complement the four-cyl...
1950 Jan 1 Rhys M. Sale Becomes President & CEO of Ford of Canada
When he retired as Chairman of the Board of Ford of Canada in 1962, the tall, athletic figure of Rhys Manly Sale had been a part of the growth of the company for 47 years. Those 47 years ...
1951 Ford Comète is First Produced
The Ford Comète (also the Simca Comète) was a car built between 1951 and 1954 in France by the Ford Motor Company's French subsidiary, Ford SAF Intended as the luxury model in the range, ...
1951 Ford Consul is First Produced
The Ford Consul is a car manufactured by Ford in Britain. Between 1951 and 1962 the Consul was the four cylinder base model of the three model Ford Zephyr range. Consul, Zephyr and Zephy...
1951 Ford Country Squire is First Produced
The Ford Country Squire was a full-size station wagon built by the Ford Motor Company from 1951 until 1991; it was based on the Ford full-size car line available in each year. The Country...
1952 Ford Country Sedan is First Produced
The Ford Country Sedan was a full-size station wagon built by the Ford Motor Company from 1952 until 1974. It was based on the Ford full-size car line available in each year. The Country...
1952 Ford Crestline is First Produced
The Ford line of cars was again refreshed for 1952, although remaining similar to the all-new 1949 Fords. This time, curved one-piece windshield glass joined a new "Mileage Maker" straigh...
1952 Ford Mainline is First Produced
The Ford Mainline was a car available from 1952 to 1956. It was the base model below the Customline and the Fairlane. There were two major versions of the Mainline: the 1952–1954 version ...
1952 Ford Ranch Wagon is First Produced
The Ford Ranch Wagon was a station wagon built by Ford Motor Company from 1952 to 1977. The Ranch Wagon was a full-size model, except in 1963 and 1964, when it was part of the intermediat...
1953 Ford Popular is First Produced
The Ford Popular is best known as a car from Ford built in England between 1953 and 1962. When launched, it was Britain's lowest priced car. The name Popular was also used by Ford to des...
1954 Ford Thames is First Produced
The Ford Thames 300E is a panel van produced by Ford of Britain from 1954 to 1961. The Thames (or Thames Trader) name was given to all available sizes of commercial vehicle produced by Fo...
1954 Ford Versailles is First Produced
The Ford Versailles is an automobile. Two different vehicles have been sold as the Ford Versailles: 1954-1957 in France 1992-1996 in Brazil The former Ford SAF plant in Poissy, acqui...
1955 Ford Crown Victoria is First Produced
The Ford Crown Victoria (commonly nicknamed the Crown Vic) is a rear-wheel drive full-size car first produced by the Ford Motor Company for the North American market in the mid-1950s. Its...
1955 Ford Fairlane is First Produced
The Ford Fairlane was an automobile model sold between 1955 and 1971 by the Ford Motor Company in North America. The name was taken from Henry Ford's estate, Fair Lane, near Dearborn, Mic...
1955 Ford Thunderbird is First Produced
The Thunderbird ("T-Bird"), is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in the United States over thirteen model generations from 1955 through to 2005. When introduced, it cre...
1956 Ford Parklane is First Produced
The Ford Parklane was a car produced by the Ford Motor Company in the United States for one year only, 1956. Launched to compete with the Chevrolet Nomad, it was a two-door station wagon,...
1957 Ford C-Series is First Produced
The Ford C-Series was a medium-duty cab over truck built by the Ford Motor Company between 1957 and 1990. While advertisers boasted of its versatility, it was used primarily for local del...
1957 Ford Del Rio is First Produced
The Ford Del Rio was a full-size station wagon produced by the Ford Motor Company in the United States for model years 1957 and 1958. The model was also marketed under the name Del Rio Ra...
1957 Ford Ranchero is First Produced
The Ford Ranchero was a sedan-based pickup truck produced between 1957 and 1979. Unlike a pickup truck, the Ranchero was adapted from a station wagon platform that integrated the cab and ...
1957 Ford Skyliner is First Produced
The Ford Skyliner was an innovative full-size automobile with a retractable hardtop produced by the Ford Motor Company in the late 1950s. Based on the North American Ford Fairlane, the Sk...
1959 Ford Galaxie is First Produced
The Ford Galaxie was a full-size car built in the United States by the Ford Motor Company for model years 1959 through 1974. The name was used for the top models in Ford’s full-size range...