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jiminbartow
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Ford script
Many people think that the iconic Ford script is Henry Ford’s creation and his handwriting. Not so. In around 1907, Henry was looking for a logo for his fledgling company, when the company’s first Chief engineer/designer and friend, Childe Harold Wills, who also printed business cards used the calligraphy from his own cards to stylize the Ford script logo that is so iconic today. Jim Patrick
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Oldav8tor
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Re: Ford script
Wills left Ford and started his own car company (and the city of Marysville, MI) down along the St. Clair River which divides Michigan and Canada. There is an excellent small museum in Marysville that features many of the surviving Wills-Saint Claire Automobiles. They were a bit fancier than the Model T 
1917 Touring
1946 Aeronca Champ
1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep (sold 2023)
1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor
1946 Aeronca Champ
1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep (sold 2023)
1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor
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Bud Delong
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Re: Ford script
Which Ford script was Willis involved with?? My guess it was the Winged Ford script?? Bud.
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Susanne
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Re: Ford script
The one in the first post.
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Bud Delong
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Re: Ford script
Susan the very early Fords and i think the first 2500 model T's had a winged script?? Bud.
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Re: Ford script
The story I heard was that when Henry Ford went to Ireland to look up his ancestors, he found they spelled the name FORDE, so he put the E back in with the F cross.