[AT] Similarities between Carrol Shelby and Harry Ferguson

[Stephen Offiler]

Wikipedia says Edsel had four kids, three boys and a girl.

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 12:17 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Not so Jack. I think Edsel was Henry's only son. Edsel himself may have
> had 2.
>
>
> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Jack
>
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> Ford Motor had Carroll Shelby handling negotiations with Ferrari for a
> joint racing venture. The insults came when Ferrari did not accept the
> offer. Hank the Deuce was Edsel Ford’s only son, Henry’s grandson. With
> Ferrari’s refusal. Shelby started his own Ford backed racing team. Ford
> Motor bureaucrats interfered negatively in the team.
>
> The movie portrays the Deuce using his own epithets back at Enzo, hard for
> Lee Iacocca to take.
>
> Henry Ford was able to see the advantages of the Ferguson System and
> ignored the "not invented here" factions at Ford. I understand Henry had a
> number of politically incorrect then and more so now social opinions.
>
> It is possible that Hank the Deuce's wife played a role in the
> Ford/Ferguson split.
>
> Jason (dejoodster at gmail.com); That's probably not a bad thing.  Henry was
> a difficult, bitter person to say the least. How he treated his only son
> was appalling.
>
> <snip>  As Enzo Ferrari said, Hank the Deuce was not Henry Ford.
>
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> https://jalopnik.com/when-carroll-shelby-and-ford-gave-up-on-the-car-ken-mil-1839905593
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