On what date was Ford Motor Company founded in Detroit, Michigan?

Ford Motor Company was founded on June 16, 1903, in Detroit, Michigan.

Henry Ford and 11 associates established the company with an initial investment of $28,000. The business began producing automobiles at a small factory on Mack Avenue, where its first car, the two-cylinder Model A, was assembled. Henry Ford had previously worked on automobile prototypes and had helped establish the Henry Ford Company, which later became Cadillac after his departure.

Ford Motor Company’s founding date is sometimes confused with the date of its incorporation or with the launch of the Model T in 1908. The company’s first successful mass-market model was not its first automobile. Ford’s later Highland Park plant and moving assembly-line methods transformed production, but those developments occurred after the company had already been established.