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If there's been a better vision statement
than 'I will build a motor car for the great multitude' over the last 75
years or so, we've not come across it.
But Ford didn't always sound like that. Sometimes you need to inspire,
sometimes you need to explain, sometimes you need to describe. Here he is
on disabled employment at Baton Rouge:
"It turned out at the time of the enquiry that there were
then 7,882 different jobs in the factory. Of these, 949 were classified
as heavy work requiring strong, able-bodied, and practically physically
perfect men; 3,338 required men of ordinary physical development and
strength. The remaining 3,595 jobs were disclosed as requiring no
physical exertion, and could be performed by the slightest, weakest sort
of men....The lightest jobs were again classified to discover how many
of them required the use of full faculties, and we found that 670 could
be filled by legless men, 2,637 by one-legged men, 2 by armless men, 715
by one-armed men and 10 by blind men."
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