Author: Geoff Myers

Full-size cars not selling well during gas shortage; Ford has first quarterly loss since 1946

Painting robots introduced early 1970s

New plant addition opens

National Ford strike lasts 68 days

Mississippi floods again but production uninterrupted; during changeover, skilled workers create fixed-automated welding equipment

Glass plant closes

Ford goes public in the largest stock offering ever

Merger of AFL-CIO; George Meany, president; Walter Reuther, V.P.; TCAP produces 130,841 units, a new record

Flooded Mississippi River knocks out steam and hydro plants