http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q32d6RdDfoQ

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone have an amazing and rare filmed chat following the Lights Golden Jubilee–a campaign celebrating the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison’ invention of the commercially available electric light bulb, which ended with an event held in Dearborn, Michigan on October 21, 1929.

Later that evening, after the formal ceremonies of Lights Golden Jubilee were complete, Henry Ford, tire magnate Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison chatted during a short radio broadcast about the exciting opportunities that new, modern inventions offered young men during the late 1920s. Modern subtitles have been added to compensate for the primitive late 1920s sound recording of the event.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkXBGKBxjw

On January 13, 1942, Henry Ford patented a car made out of plastic that was 30% lighter than the average car of that day. This video shows footage of the plastic car.

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“While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make…”

Notorious American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow–known together as Bonnie and Clyde–died on May 23, 1934 in Henry Ford’s V8-powered Model B shot by four Texas officers. Ford allegedly received a letter from Barrow, a month before his death, that expressed Barrow’s admiration for the V8-powered Model B. The letter:

Source: Tyler Davies & Letters of Note.

Tulsa Okla
10th April
Mr. Henry Ford
Detroit Mich.

Dear Sir: -

While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned and even if my business hasen’t been strickly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8 -

Yours truly
Clyde Champion Barrow

The site where Barrow and Parker were ambushed with their Ford V8-powered Model B. (May 23, 1934). Source: FBI.

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