Old Photo - Highland Park Plant Ford Motor Company

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 10:02 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Todd on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 11:38 am:

Good one, thanks.
Ken


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Whelihan on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 11:44 am:

What is the building to the far lower left in the pic? Doesn't look like a corporate office. Did the Ford family live on site?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ron Patterson-Nicholasville, Kentucky on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 12:05 pm:

Kevin
The building to the far left with the circular driveway is the Henry Ford Trade School.
The Ford family lived in Dearborn at their estate Fairlane.
Ron the Coilman


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Semprez-Templeton, CA on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 03:30 pm:

Wow! Thanks for that bit of knowledge Ron.

Back in 1975, as a green sales engineer I met an old guy working as a "plant engineer" (really a semi retired overseer) for a large machine shop in Emeryville, CA. He took a liking to me and sought me out every time I visited the plant. During our many visits he told me how as a young shiftless kid in Detroit, "The old man" caught him smoking behind one of Mr. Ford's barns. Mr Ford offered him schooling or jail!

My old friend was then enrolled in the Ford Trade School receiving regular visits from Mr. Ford, just to make sure he was making progress! After a couple of years he was given a full time plant job in plant engineering, again watched closely by "the old man".

I remember him telling me the school was in a "corner of the plant" and after morning classes he worked in he plant till nightfall. Mr Ford had a thing about "idle hands".

I only wish I could remember this old gentlemans name, I'll bet Ford's record's would tell the rest of this story.

This old photo makes his stories come to life for me.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Semprez-Templeton, CA on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 03:34 pm:

Sorry Jay, I Forgot to thank you for this trip down memory lane!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roar Sand on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 05:11 pm:

I remember the Ford plant area being between Woodward Avenue and Oakland Avenue and north of Manchester, but I can't make out which is which in the picture. Starting in 1964 i used to drive down Oakland going to work, and you had to cross the RR tracks going into the Ford plant at 40 m.p.h. Any more or any less and it would rattle the fillings out of your teeth.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Whelihan on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 06:09 pm:

Thanks Ron! Pretty fancy for a trade school.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ron Patterson-Nicholasville, Kentucky on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 06:33 pm:

The Highland Park plant faces Woodward Avenue. Manchester street is on the right and at the rear is Oakland Avenue.
A photo similar to this was given to Ford dealers to hang in their showroom.
Ron the Coilman


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ron Patterson-Nicholasville, Kentucky on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 06:39 pm:

I have one of those Ford dealer photos of the Highland Park facility hanging on my shop wall.
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Ron the Coilman


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 06:54 pm:

St Paul Minnesota ford plant along the Mississippi in Highland Park


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 06:56 pm:

The Twin Cities Ford Plant along the Mississippi in Highland Park.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 07:00 pm:

Another image another view of the Highland Park Ford Assembly Plant along the Mississippi.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison on Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 07:04 pm:

From the Model T era at the Twin Cities Ford Plant at Highland Park.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Monday, December 15, 2014 - 12:51 am:

Here is a better picture of the original Henry Ford Trade School building.

Henry Ford Trade School

In the middle 1930s, Lawrence Institute of Technology (now Lawrence Technological University) rented this space for a number of years.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roar Sand on Monday, December 15, 2014 - 09:33 pm:

Thanks Ron!
Looks like Manchester didn't show in the original picture, but it does in the picture you posted, and that makes it more clear.


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