October 7, 1913 – For the first time, Henry Ford‘s entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis—the automobile’s frame—is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique.
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Mar 14, 1914 – Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
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Dec 22, 1900 – The first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer and auto dealer to the rich and famous.
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