[mlsu]

Most definitely! I mean, Ford was revolutionary because it was the first car factory company, right?

Before that, you had to have a weird german guy hand build your buggy.

[mikewarot]

The thing that made Ford revolutionary is precision mass production . You could take parts produced in factories on different continents and freely interchange them. Parts with tolerance of a thousandth of an inch.

Ford bought out Johansson just to make sure he had access to the gage blocks that were the enabling technology of the day.

[geerlingguy]

Before Ford, there were thousands of bespoke car manufacturers all around the world, producing units in the hundreds per year.

[nonethewiser]

Well, they’re a manufacturer. The product is cars. Car factories are a prerequisite.