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Ford Motor Company was incorporated as an automobile manufacturer on June 16, 1903. Its articles of incorporation were drawn up and signed in the office of Alexander Y. Malcomson, who operated a coal yard once located on this site. Henry Ford gave the company its name and designed its first product, the 1903 Model A. The company was established to manufacture and sell motor cars and related parts. In addition to Ford and Malcomson, the original stockholders included John S. Gray, John F. Dodge, Horace E. Dodge, Albert Strelow, Vernon C. Fry, Charles H. Bennett, Horace H. Rackham, John W. Anderson, James Couzens, and Charles J. Woodall, figures important in Detroit's history. Over the past seventy-five years, Ford Motor Company became one of the world's leading auto producers.
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