February 15, 2006

BILL MCGRAW : Memoirs revisited

Wayne State University Press has just re-issued "My Forty Years with Ford," memoirs from one of the most important people in the history of the Ford Motor Co. Charles (Cast-Iron Charlie) Sorenson was a production genius who worked for Henry Ford from 1905 to 1944. He helped create Ford's Model T and assembly line, ran the Rouge plant, designed the Willow Run bomber plant and sided with Edsel Ford against Edsel's father Henry and Ford security chief Harry Bennett during the showdown over the company's future before Edsel's death. Sorensen\'s memoirs have been out of print for decades.

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