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A Ford worker operating a state-of-the art multiple-spindle drill press on a flathead V-8 engine block in 1934. The story of Ford’s enormous production facility located at the confluence of the Rouge and Detroit Rivers is very well known. Developed between 1917 and 1928, it’s specifications were staggering. It was a mile and a half…
*Update* We have not learned anything more about the buses, but thanks to reader Karl Hagen we have found the the pilot house of the Benson Ford is now a cottage on South Bass Island, Put-In-Bay, Ohio, North of Sandusky, Ohio, on Lake Erie. You can read the story of how the pilot house was…
A 1941 photo of the newer River Rouge plant which was the worlds largest manufacturing operation at the time. You can also look at an earlier photo from 1932 Of the River Rouge here.
In Part I of 1930s Ford Super-Service Stations we reported: “In an effort to capture a larger market share in 1935 the Ford Motor Company was promoting “Ford Super Service Stations” which were service garages that also sold gasoline, parts, accessories, and new cars. The concept was not a new one as the Automaker sold…
Monday’s feature contains a pair of images taken in 1953 of parking lots at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant located in Dearborn, Michigan. Contrary to what you may have read, heard or thought in the past about automobile factory workers owning and driving one of the automaker’s vehicles to show loyalty to their employer,…
By Jennifer Strong: Fordite or Detroit Agate is highly sought after by collectors, but it is not actually a stone; it’s a piece of automobile history. Henry Ford may have said you can have any color car so long as it is black, although paint color choices have long been important to car lovers. Lacquer…
The photo containing 1955 Ford Thunder Birds parked in a shipping holding area near the Ford River Rouge Plant in last Friday’s Kodachrome Car Photos Series garnered quite a bit of attention. Over the weekend, contributor Benjamin Ames sent in today’s appealing lead image of a child-size 1955 or ’56 T-Bird go-kart. In addition the photo contains…
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