Let all wait the French seem to beat everyone to the manufacture cars...
LINK:
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-car-assembly-line-4072559
By the early 1900s,
gasoline cars started to outsell all other types of motor vehicles. The market was growing for automobiles and the need for industrial production was pressing.
The first car manufacturers in the world were French companies Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891).
Daimler and
Benz started out as innovators who experimented with car design to test their engines before becoming full car manufacturers. They made their early money by licensing their patents and selling their engines to car manufacturers.
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Levassor was the first designer to move the engine to the front of the car and use a rear-wheel drive layout. This design was known as the Systeme Panhard and quickly became the standard for all cars because it gave a better balance and improved steering.
Panhard and Levassor are also credited with the invention of the modern transmission, which was installed in their 1895 Panhard.
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Early on, French manufacturers did not standardize car models as each car was different from the other. The first standardized car was the 1894 Benz Velo. One hundred and thirty-four identical Velos were manufactured in 1895.
Snip... Ford was not first... in America
America's first gas-powered commercial car manufacturers were Charles and Frank Duryea. The brothers were bicycle makers who became interested in gasoline engines and automobiles. They built their first motor vehicle in 1893 in Springfield, Massachusetts and by 1896 the Duryea Motor Wagon Company had sold thirteen models of the Duryea, an expensive limousine that remained in production into the 1920s.
The first automobile to be mass produced in the United States was the 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile, built by the American car manufacturer Ransome Eli Olds (1864-1950).
Olds invented the basic concept of the assembly line and started the Detroit area automobile industry. He first began making steam and gasoline engines with his father, Pliny Fisk Olds, in Lansing, Michigan in 1885.
Olds designed his first steam-powered car in 1887. In 1899, with his experience in making gasoline engines,
Olds moved to Detroit to start the Olds Motor Works with the goal of producing low-priced cars. He produced 425 "Curved Dash Olds" in 1901, and was America's leading auto manufacturer from 1901 to 1904
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American car manufacturer Henry Ford (1863-1947) was
credited with inventing an improved assembly line.
Around 1913, he installed the first conveyor belt-based assembly line in his car factory at Ford's Highland Park, Michigan plant. The assembly line reduced production costs for cars by reducing assembly time.
Snip... Ford's big victory!
Another victory won by Henry Ford was the patent battle with George B. Selden. Selden, who held a patent on a "road engine." On that basis, Selden was paid royalties by all American car manufacturers. Ford overturned Selden's patent and opened the American car market for the building of inexpensive cars