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...United Auto Workers laid down their demands in July; the Ford Motor Co. laid down its offer in August. Since then, the two sides have barely been on speaking terms. It was only last week that they really began negotiating...
Seat belts may be all right for adults, but try keeping a squirming five-year-old child buckled up for a long automobile ride. It cannot be done, short of resorting to chloroform. Last week the Ford Motor Co. showed off its answer: a 5-lb. padded plastic body shield called the "Tot Guard." The child sits on a molded seat; then a loosely fitting, one-piece leg-and-body "cast" is placed over him. The seat belt loops around in front to secure the entire apparatus, allowing the child to move around inside his cast but also to stay...
...being struck last week read like a what's what of business. Such basic industries as steel, chemicals and copper were affected by work stoppages. So were farming and farm machinery, bricklaying, metalworking, bronze refining, shipbuilding, office-machine and computer production, and even toys and teaching. The Ford Motor Co. was shut down and its new-car production halted by a walkout of 161,000 employees. At one end of the television industry, 1,450 employees struck the Fort Wayne...
...more adventurous design their own around Volkswagen engines or the sturdy, simple Model A Ford motor. In a pinch, almost any old engine will do. One latter-day Orville Wright powered his homemade biplane with a pair of chain-saw motors...
There seemed to be no good reason for the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of Britain even to consider a new car. For those who preferred the compact and medium-sized auto, it was already producing Anglias, Consuls and Prefects; for bigger-car buyers, it was manufacturing Zephyrs and Zodiacs. The market appeared to be covered. Then, Ford planners spotted a potentially lucrative gap. To fill it, they created the Cortina, a car in the Anglia price range but with roominess comparable to the Consul...