How The Ford Railroad Man Earns His Pay

This is from a 1921 Edition of "Infantry Journal".  Sheds some light on how Ford ran his Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad.

Henry Ford Inspects A Locomotive

Here is a photo of Henry Ford inspecting Engine No. 7- his favorite engine among the locomotives in his D.T.& I. fleet.  This picture dates from 1922.

Updating & New Features

With the amount of information available here on Vintage Ford Facts & lots more to come- I've added a search function for your convenience. Now you'll have no problem finding what you're looking for and quite possibly a few things you weren't looking for!

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Making Fenders 1930 Style...............

Here's a brief photographic trip documenting the process of making fenders for the Model A.

Building Model A Ford Bodies at Long Beach California Plant

Body Building Jigs.

Hoods are put into a jig for proper shape & adjustment. Then hung on the turnstile.

Model A Ford Bodies at the Long Beach Ford Plant 1930-31

First set of a series I will be doing on the Long Beach Ford Plant. Here you can see bodies in various stages of construction, fenders, and a warehouse full of fenders, engines, and other parts. How'd you like to have all that in your garage right now?  Enough NOS parts to keep you & your friends busy for a good while. Not to mention financing your retirement!

Note the '28-29 cab hanging on the conveyor. Also of note are the sheer amount of dark colored bodies. The Tudor Sedan body at the front of the line appears to have a glass sediment bowl installed. This is quite possibly the trim line where upholstery gets installed.

A wider array of colors on these bodies! I'll take either of those Roadster bodies.....

Bodies ready to be installed on completed chassis. Both Closed & Open Cab Pickup, Tudor, Roadster, Coupe and others not visible. Just finding one of these left behind in a factory would be better than finding gold!

Roadster, Cabriolet, Coupe and one 28-29 Style Closed cab body.

Highland Park Factory Powerhouse Then & Now

As the plant appeared in 1956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the property looks today.

The Powerhouse, Administration building and parts of the factory itself were demolished in 1958. Eventually The Model T shopping plaza was built on the site. The stores are typical shopping plaza fare, a grocerteria, drug store, a dollar store etc.