http://cdm15889.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../15808/rec/184
Take a minute,download and read Al Smiths history..besides a fantastic look at engine development and production issues he gets into the Meade Bricker/Charles Sorenson /Harry Bennett dynamic,and Bennetts cohorts like Rauch..Ford wasnt run like GM with a smart corporate culture..there were cliques and power struggles at Ford,waste,fraud and abuse,it got worse the older Henry got. The Deuce fixed alot of it with the whiz kids and some GM people,but Ford Motor during the war and before was a very interesting company.
There are other real good histories in the collection, Harold Hicks,Eugene Farkas and Lawrence Sheldrick to name a few..the trials and tribulations of the model a development..