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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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The Differences Between Henry Ford's Model T and the Rolls Royce

The Silver Ghost, 1908 to 1927, was all made by hand. 16 million Model T's were made on assembly lines. Price of a Rolls Royce went up from $809 in 1908 to 217 in 1927. The common people required more precision than did the aristocracy on the rich.

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