Ford tested various assembly methods to optimize the procedures before permanently installing the equipment. The actual assembly line used an overhead crane to mount the body. Henry Ford's production time went from twelve and a half hours to two and a half hours. Which caused cars price that was $900 to go down to $440. Many employees were not happy with the amount of work they were doing without any pay raise. So Henry Ford increased the pay wages to keep employees happy.
According to Henry Ford:
"The principles of assembly are these:
(1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing.
(2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a workman completes his operation, he drops the part always in the same place--which place must always be the most convenient place to his hand--and if possible have gravity carry the part to the next workman for his operation.
(3) Use sliding assembling lines by which the parts to be assembled are delivered at convenient distances."
- James Martin Miller; Henry Ford (1922), The amazing story of Henry Ford, M. A. Donohue & co.
- Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950)
- David Raizman, History of Modern Design, Prentice-Hall
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