Today we were back at the Ford Rouge Factory where the Ford Trucks are being built. The schedule for the day was to build 1200 trucks that have been already pre-ordered by customers. The trucks are built by 2 lines that put out a completed truck every minute. The production line is a well supplied system that has each worker complete the task for that station in about 1 minute. Each truck goes through about 240 stations. The vehicle is raised or lowered so that each worker is in a comfortable position. Unfortunately no photography allowed inside the plant.
Once outside of the production plant, there were several classic cars in the showroom.
A 1949 Ford
1956 T-Bird
1965 Mustang
A letter from Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde fame complementing the Ford cars for their V-8 power.
The Greenfield Village created by John Ford relocated many historic buildings to this location. They include the houses of many important people to the growth of the country such as Edison. As an example, Ford had the laboratory located in New Jersey moved to the Michigan site. Edison said that it wouldn't be the same as New Jersey so Ford paid for many truckloads of New Jersey soil brought to Dearborn so that it would still rest on NJ soil.
The Pottery shop
Tom turning a candle holder on a lathe.
It wasn't a big candle holder but a job well done.
There were many old vehicles on the property giving people rides.
In Edison's lab where the first public viewing of a successful light bulb (re-enactment in the moved building) Edison sat in a chair. After, Ford had a worker come to the location and nail down the chair. Since that time only one person has sat in the chair...Heller Keller.
When the old floor was replaced, the floor under the chair was cut out and the new floor built around it.
At the end of the day, something wasn't going hungry.
We would highly recommend the Rouge Truck Tour it was absolutely wonderful.
Thanks for keeping an eye out for Grammie.
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