Ford were making a Liberator bomber every sixty three minutes during WW2, they built the factory and had the product rolling off the production line a year afte

Ford were making a Liberator bomber every sixty three minutes during WW2, they built the factory and had the product rolling off the production line a year after the government requested it. A huge amount of WW2 inventory rolled off the Ford production line with Ford and not the government finding the capital and the land for the factory. The war in Europe would have been very different without Ford supplied planes and other materiel. Compared to other war time suppliers Ford 'aced it'. Yet despite the amazing things the original Henry Ford and Edsel did you don't get the impression that today's Ford has that same dynamism. The more out there ideas Ford had went with him. The company had shareholders in the stock market after Ford died and from then on the brakes were on as far as speculative, massively vertically integrated investments. Ford may have a 100 year head start but it is 75 or so years since their 'Elon grade' founder left them.