ABSTRACT
Henry Ford once said that history is bunk. What he meant was that history could not teach him how to revolutionize the production of automobiles. However, Ford never said that geography is bunk. To the contrary, the Ford Motor Company owed much of its early dominance of North American automotive production to geography. At a time when the location of the North American automotive industry was largely accidental, the Ford Motor Company adopted a strategy for locating plants which proved successful for more than six decades.
