[old car guy]

Henry Ford was like all of the worlds visionarys . They saw the need to buy the tools to make there companys needs cheaper and more efficient .if that included airlines railways boats or any other entity that would make his product better and or a cheaper cost per unit, they bought the company that supplied that service no matter what it entailed. If they tried that today big gov would be all over them. Ah how time have changed . That why there will never be a new American start up auto company like ford Chevy or Chrysler again to many rules and hoops to jump thru that would prohibit a company rising to the status of. ford ever again