[Ted Ryan, Ford Motor Co.’s Heritage and Brand Manager, standing in front of the automaker’s current world headquarters]
[Still of Ford Motor founder Henry Ford (right) and his son, Edsel Ford, looking over a scale model of a Ford plant]
[Model T on display inside Ford’s world headquarters]
Ted Ryan (interview): “Ford was actually incorporated and the first headquarters were in Detroit proper on Mack Avenue. Piquette Plant was in Detroit proper. After that, we moved out of the city to Highland Park, a nearby suburb of Detroit. But in 1928, Ford Motor Company moved its headquarters to Dearborn, Michigan, where we’ve been for almost the next hundred years.”
[Ford employees walking down a hallway inside the headquarters building]
Ted Ryan (interview): “We’re sitting at the Henry Ford II World Center. It was opened in 1956, and the locals quickly began to call it ‘The Glass House,’ because of the extensive use of glass and the architectural style.”
[Exterior of The Glass House]
[Ryan pointing to the flags of various countries that ring the building’s entrance]
Ted Ryan (interview): “When it opened, it was one of the largest buildings that housed a single corporate entity, Ford Motor Company at The Glass House.”
[Crews working on Ford’s new world headquarters building]
Ted Ryan (interview): “Beginning in November, Ford headquarters will move from The Glass House to the new building that’s about 3 miles away or about 10 minutes away, on the land that was formerly the Product Development Center.”
[Worker measuring a beam at the new headquarters]
[A Ford video running on a digital display inside what will be the visitor entrance to the new HQ building]
[Crews at work on the new structure]
[The building exterior]
Ted Ryan (interview): “For the first time in more than 100 years, Ford is going to have its administration where the product is actually being developed. The last time was at Piquette, but we’ve been out of there since 1910. So, as we move to the new headquarters, it was on the site of the Product Development Center. Product development and administration will all take place in the same building.”
[Ryan walking toward, then into, the current headquarters]
[Statue of Henry Ford II on display inside the HQ named after him]
[Still of William Clay Ford Sr. (right) and his son, Bill Ford, standing together inside The Glass House]
Ted Ryan (interview): “Here at The Glass House, many of the Ford family members have had offices. The namesake for our building, the Henry Ford II World Center, obviously had an office here. But so did William Clay Ford and so did Benson Ford, although William Clay Ford Sr. actually moved to the Product Development Center when he took over design. Since then, Bill Ford has an office here on the 12th floor.”
[Still of Bill Ford smiling]
[Bill Ford speaking during an event]
[Ford’s blue oval logo as seen on the exterior of The Glass House]
Ted Ryan (interview): “There have been multiple Ford family members who as they walk in and they see the blue oval with ‘Ford’ on the side of the building, they’re really walking into their family home.”
[Still of Ford’s headquarters building]
[Still of Henry Ford II (center) speaking at a news event alongside fellow Ford executives Lee Iacocca (left) and Philip Caldwell (right)]
[Still of Ford headquarters’ windows lit up to form the block letters “U-S-A” for the Fourth of July weekend]
Ted Ryan (interview): “When we move to the new headquarters, the ‘1 American Road’ address will move with it, because we’re going to continue to develop products for the next century to open not only the roads of America, but the roads of the world, to everyone.”
[Ryan looking at The Glass House]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.