Rapid Growth Of The United States

Rapidly industrializing automobile. If France can be considered a pioneer in the design of automobiles, it is the United States that it takes its full extent. The U.S. auto industry, like Ford and General Motors, growing rapide. Standardization, saving labor and corporate concentration are factors that prosperity américaine. Several large American born in 1920-1930 Chrysler in 1925, Pontiac in 1926, LaSalle in 1927, Plymouth 1928.

In 1901 already, an American manufacturer, the "Olds Motor Vehicle Company", selling over three years about 12 500 cars a model unique. The famous "Model T" Ford is the first model to fully benefit from this system of "line work" based on Taylorism, making it the best-selling car in the world to époque. It is also the first true "people's car", the idea had been raised at the beginning of the century by De Dion-Bouton with his "Popular" or Jules Salomon The Zebra with automobiles. Therefore, the United States surpassed France in terms of vehicles produits.

Then in 1907, France and the United States produced about 25,000 cars, just Great Britain 2500 and that two-thirds of exported cars were French, the line work multiplies the production. In 1914, 485,000 cars with 250,000 Fort T are produced in the United States against 45,000 in France, 34,000 in Britain and 23,000 in Germany. Some scholars believe that this rapid growth is also due to the American mentality, Americans whereas the work allows them to raise socialement.The car still arouses more interest, especially since the success of the Ford T.