In late 1922, almost a decade after assembly-line production of the Model T had begun, the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung introduced Ford to its readership under the headline “Curiosities from America.” He was described as a kind of charlatan: “A relatively uneducated man full of futile, harebrained ideas for world salvation,” the article read, “a personality not … to be compared to the old capitalist barons Morgan, Vanderbilt, etc.,… a ‘loudmouth’ who supposedly produces 2,000 of his automobiles a day.”
