Dec 7, 1957 Henry Ford II: The Edsel is here to stay

[Joe771476]

I found these in a 1985 New York Post newspaper. Henry Ford II made that statement in closed-circuit message to all Edsel dealers! //// The Literary Digest Oct 14 1899: "The ordinary horseless carriage is at present a luxury for the wealthy, and although its price will fall in the future, it will never of course come into as common use as the bicycle." //// Proceedings of the Third American Road Congress 1913: "It's an idle dream to imagine that auto trucks and automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of freight and passengers."//// Scientific American Jan 2, 1909: That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."//// Thomas Edison 1910: In 15 years more electricity will be sold for electric vehicles than for light."//// Alfred P. Sloan 1929: The question has been raised whether the cost of mfr. in a country like germany might reach the point where through evolution, motor cars could be produced and sold in competition in the American market."//// Business Week 1958: Though import sales could hit 425,000 in 1959, they may never go that high again."//// Yale Scientific Magazine 1941: Next year's cars should be rolling out of Detroit with plastic bodies."////Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist 1895: Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."