Sublime

Ever since it was founded, Ford Motor Company had shared some of its prosperity with its people. Employees who had been with the company for three years or longer received 10 per cent of their annual pay, and efficiency bonus checks were handed to executives and branch managers.

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For most of the twentieth century, Ford was essentially a confederation of national companies. Each country had its own head offices, design facilities, and production plants. At one point, Ford even had two Escort cars on the road that had been designed and built entirely separately. Yet, by the 1990s, it was developing “world cars” with common pa