FORD CITY, a borough of Armstrong county, Pa., U.S.A., on the Allegheny river, 35m. N.E. of Pittsburgh. It is served by the Pennsylvania and (through West Ford city, across the river) the Pittsburgh and Shawmut railways. The population was 5,605 in 1920; and was 6,127 in 1930. Ford City has the largest plate-glass plant in the country, and manuf actures also mill machinery, gear wheels and pottery. It was founded in 1887, when Captain J. B. Ford, a pioneer in the plate-glass industry, built a factory here on land bought from farmers. The borough was in corporated in 1898.