Henry Ford and the impact of the motor industry

The motor industry led to a boom in other related industries

• Henry Ford developed the assembly line [Assembly line : The arrangement of machines and workers in one line in order to make production more efficient. ] and conveyor belt to speed up motor production.
• Ford's River Rouge plant in Detroit, Michigan became the largest factory in the world.
• Ford produced a standard model, the Model T Ford. A new Model T Ford cost less than $300 in the mid-1920s.
• By 1929, more than 26 million cars were registered in the USA.
• During the 1920s, about $1 billion a year was spent on the construction of a national network of highways.
• The automobile industry also caused other industries such as steel, rubber, leather and paint to grow rapidly.