Quote: Yah, what did Chevrolet do for this country? They didnt make the mass production line, FORD did, therefore FORD is truely american, with Henry Ford's idea, cars should be made affordable by everyone! The american dream!
Henry Ford didn't create the mass production line. The railroad began using mass production some 50 years earlier in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Standardized Parts had also been in use for decades by many industries, so Ford can't claim that one either.
Henry Ford didn't even create the first Automobile Assembly line -- that was Ransom Olds (yes, Oldsmobile) more than a decade before Ford did. And while I realize you said "Mass Production Line", and there is a technical difference, many people do believe that Ford did create the assembly line.
All Henry Ford did was add conveyor belts to the Olds' system. While that did speed things up considerably, making it truly "mass production", his "invention" was only months ahead of implementation by the competition.
Ford did great things, but we'd all be driving cars just as cheap if not for him. It all would have happened, just a few months later than it historically did.
