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Many people think that the iconic Ford script is Henry Ford’s creation and his handwriting. Not so. In around 1907, Henry was looking for a logo for his fledgling company, when the company’s first Chief engineer/designer and friend, Childe Harold Wills, who also printed business cards used the calligraphy from his own cards to stylize the Ford script logo that is so iconic today. Jim Patrick

Wills left Ford and started his own car company (and the city of Marysville, MI) down along the St. Clair River which divides Michigan and Canada. There is an excellent small museum in Marysville that features many of the surviving Wills-Saint Claire Automobiles. They were a bit fancier than the Model T

Which Ford script was Willis involved with?? My guess it was the Winged Ford script?? Bud.

The one in the first post.

Susan the very early Fords and i think the first 2500 model T's had a winged script?? Bud.

The story I heard was that when Henry Ford went to Ireland to look up his ancestors, he found they spelled the name FORDE, so he put the E back in with the F cross.