Ford started Ford. At age 16 he started working on engines for the Detroit Edison car company. than in 1896 He built the quadricycle, 4 bicycle wheels with an engine and a seat. In 1902 the Detroit Edison car company started focusing on racing cars. Gerald ford didn’t like that and left. In 1903 he started Ford, the famous car company. his first car was the Ford model T. Many other car companies he’d the parts built for them and than they just assembled the parts. Henry Didn’t like that and bought iron mines and coal mines. Than he bought shipping companies to ship his materials and build his own parts and assembled them. As so many cars were wanted he invented a process for making a ton of cars in a short time it is called mass production which is used even up to today.