Re: The last car Henry Ford ever rode in....
Posted by portlandon On 2008/8/25 16:41:00
Guscha-
Thats a great story. I respected Ford for alot that he did. I would love to have been on some of the camping trips with Henry, Thomas Edison, & Harvey Firestone. Also, I understand President Warren Harding would accompany them sometimes. Could you imagine some of those conversations?
Here is a story from Time magazine Apr. 21, 1947 talking about him riding in the Packard Hearse:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853084-1,00.html
"All day, the day before, the body of Henry Ford had lain in state in the lobby of the recreation building at Greenfield Village, while 105,000 people had filed past. Now, inside St. Paul's, the Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it."
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Thats a great story. I respected Ford for alot that he did. I would love to have been on some of the camping trips with Henry, Thomas Edison, & Harvey Firestone. Also, I understand President Warren Harding would accompany them sometimes. Could you imagine some of those conversations?
Here is a story from Time magazine Apr. 21, 1947 talking about him riding in the Packard Hearse:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853084-1,00.html
"All day, the day before, the body of Henry Ford had lain in state in the lobby of the recreation building at Greenfield Village, while 105,000 people had filed past. Now, inside St. Paul's, the Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it."
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