Monday, December 10, 2018

Shot in the behind

I was talking to a co-worker recently. His uncle had been a union activist at Ford who received a bullet in the hip from one of the Ford Service Department team. I'll have to ask him if the 9N was in production yet.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20030616/SUB/306160746/harry-bennett%3A-henry-fords-chief-thug-targets-uaw-later-threatens

Bennett got the boot. Sorensen was left with no assignment so resigned. Harry Ferguson just got his intellectual property stolen.

[James] <snip> Henry Ford had designated the former boxer Harry Bennett to succeed him. Henry Ford's widow put in her grandson Henry Ford 2 instead. We do not know if Harry Bennett would have voided the handshake agreement had he become Ford president. <snip>

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