A further footnote on Ford and the hand-crafted Alfas

[JHertzman@domain.elided]

In AD7-1181 Jerry Lewis, adding to the Henry Ford thread, correctly comments 
on Alfa's transition from hand workmanship to a slightly more industrial 
production in the post WWII era. However, Ford died in 1947, when Alfa was 
building about three cars a week. In his prewar conversation with Ford Ugo 
Gobbato, exaggerating, had stated Alfa's production as about six cars a day, 
at a time when they were actually building less than one a day. "Real mass 
production" didn't start until 1951, when the new 1900 reached three and a 
half a day, ramping up to nearly fifteen cars a day in 1953 not long before 
the Giulietta came on-line.

John H.
Raleigh, N.C.

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