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SIMS INTERESTS FORD IN MAKING AIRPLANES
Publication: The New York Times
Date: 9 December 1921 |
Reports That Auto Man Will Turn to Aerial/Navigation Circulated in Detroit.
Special to The New York Times.
DETROIT, Dec. 8.—Henry Ford's next creation will be the “air flivver,” according to reliable rumors in circulation in Detroit today.
Intimations that the Ford Company intended to manufacture airplanes for commercial use, in circulation recently, became more positive today as a result of the conference of Ford, Rear Admiral Sims and Thomas Edison at Dearborn yesterday.
Rear Admiral Sims during his visit to Detroit emphasized strongly his belief that the airplane was the most important thing ever developed by man. He is said to have communicated his ideas to Ford, who requested that the Admiral remain in Detroit until Edison and Ford returned from Muscle Shoals.
W. B. Mayo, chief engineer of Ford enterprises, who is known as an advocate of aerial transportation, was also present at the conference.
