Wednesday, September 09, 2015

the script design for the Ford name, was the invention of Wills, who went on to found the Wills Sainte Claire car company

C. Harold Wills left Ford Motor Company in 1919, with a pocketbook flush from the hefty severance package given to him by Henry Ford.

 At Ford, Wills was responsible for the introduction of vanadium steel to the Model T, and even designed the “Ford” script in the ubiquitous Ford Blue Oval.

Wills founded the Wills Sainte Claire company after his departure, and the first Wills Sainte Claire was completed in 1921. The cars proved to be durable and strong, but the firm shuttered in 1927 due to Wills' increasingly perfectionist nature, sometimes halting production when he discovered some new production method to implement

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/lists/1509-10-most-interesting-vehicles-at-the-gilmore-car-museum/

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