[DougVieyra]

In the early 1920's, with the his vast wealth and 'top to bottom' business philosophy, there was not many icons of industrialization that Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company did not own; including his own rail lines and working locomotives and freight cars of every description. Every aspect of automobile production and delivery from raw ore, to delivery to Ford Dealerships across the entire U.S., had Henry's FORD MOTOR COMPANY hand in it.

Henry's FORD MOTOR COMPANY owned hundreds of thousands of acres of timber land for the wood needs of his factories and car production. He owned thousands of acres of iron ore production, he had a fleet of ore ships to carry his his coal and iron across the Great Lakes, and another fleet of ocean-going ships to carry his Ford cars around the world to various Ford Agencies and Dealers.

He had his own Ford Airlines, and of course his own trade schools, hospitals, air ports, etc. He produced his own coal, had hundreds for thousands of acres of rubber plantations in South American. The Ford Motor Company had it's own movie Film Dept. and had his fingers in glass companies. Of course there were many, many more other industrial, manufacturing, and production facilities that fell under the FORD MOTOR COMPANY umbrella.