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Ford Motor Co. Why Henry Ford Fought the Selden Patents

But this great development could not come if the gasoline automobile output was Trust controlled. Mr. Ford has no quarrel with the Trust or its ideas. He is perfectly willing to allow them to conduct their business to suit themselves, provided they do not interfere in any way with his ideas and he is allowed to pursue his own course and work out his own inventions unhampered and without interference.
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Ford Motor Co. Why Henry Ford Fought the Selden Patents

It is impossible to put real value into an Automobile of the type of the Model "K" built in "Ford quantities" and charge more than $2,500.00 without charging too much.
The fact that a manufacturer of small quantities does a lot of fussing? ??? and sling? and has to charge that waste time up on every car, does not make his car any better and on the contrary is not to be compared with the accurate machine which produces a thousand parts, every one exactly alike and perfect.
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Ford Motor Co. Why Henry Ford Fought the Selden Patents

Ford is an enthusiast on the future of the motor vehicle. He believes it will replace the horse in a very few years, for business as well as for pleasure, whether for traming, trucking or hauling passengers in the city, or pulling the plow, nay wagon or reaper on the farm, and it is only a question of a very few years before all this will be accomplished.
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