WASHINGTON, April 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
FORD LAUNCHES ASSEMBLY LINE
Profile America — Thursday, April 13th. The American automobile industry began to take off this month in 1913 — as Henry Ford set up the first moving assembly line in Highland Park, Michigan. Before the assembly line, workers spent over 12 hours building a single Model T. Afterward, it took only 93 minutes. Ultimately, a new car came off the assembly line every 24 seconds, and 15 million were built over the years of production. Prices dropped too. In 1909, a basic Model T roadster cost $825 — by 1925, it was down to $260. Now, U.S. automakers — Ford still among them, of course — manufacture close to $125 billion worth of vehicles annually. Profile America is beginning its 20th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources:
Assembly line/accessed 2/8/2017: www.caranddriver.com/features/fords-assembly-line-turns-100-how-it-really-put-the-world-on-wheels-feature
Speed of production/accessed 2/8/2017: www.willamette.edu/~fthompso/MgmtCon/Henry_Ford.html
Model T prices/accessed 2/8/2017: auto.howstuffworks.com/1923-1927-ford-model-t5.htm
U.S. auto sales value: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ASM/2015/31GS101//naics~336111
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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