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Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 22 Alas, the factory was torn down six years ago The car has an interesting history and the museum is worth an short detour if you are headed up to Port Huron Discuss Detroit » Hall of Fame Threads » Old Car Factories » Old Car Factories - 22
Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 23 On page 8 of the Old Car Factories archives is a map of the Hupmobile factory taken from a book called "How Detroit Became the Automobile Capital " It looks like there are some addresses shown on the various sections in front of the building along E Milwaukee Avenue The addresses are a little too small for me to tell what they are
Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 18 Aiw: The Dodge Water Car is actually a boat that Horace Dodge JR began to manufacture in Detroit After reading about this in the book Dodge Dynesty I did a little more research and found something that mentioned the boat was built in the current Warehouse District The factory was evetually closed and moved to the east coast
Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 2 Ransome E Olds was the largest auto maker at the turn of the 20th Century in 1904 His first car was built in 1896 He owned a huge factory at the corner of E Jefferson and Concord, near the Belle Isle Bridge It was America's first factory dedicated to autos His innovation was the curved-dash and windows of model 1900
Discuss Detroit: Continental Plant on Jefferson Here are some old factory shots The first two are of the Aerocar Hudson plant on Mack The third is a shot of the Continental factory I have a bunch of shots of old car buildings Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 1143 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68 43 13 146
Discuss Detroit: Packard Plant Is Dominic still around? He was living in the school on Concord Street At the time, he was still running the abandoned factory site as a land mgr He was a colorful guy, Pure Detroit jjaba Krawlspace Member Username: Krawlspace Post Number: 239 Registered: 04-2004 Posted From: 69 246 59 37
Discuss Detroit: Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant The A O Smith company should probably be included in the Old Car Factory's thread on account of its supplying the frames for Detroit's auto and truck factories from 1906 to 1958 One of its automated frame plants in 1920 began auto-assembling its frames [Another uncle worked there as a welder for his work career, dating back before WWII ]
Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 16 This is the factory that is purported to become the King Motor Car factory in 1911 or 1912, but other articles on Hupp have things really confused as to the dates which plants were used when I tried to find some old aerials of the factory, but the Morgan Wright tire factory is putting out so much smoke that it is obscurred in every photo
Discuss Detroit: Old Car Factories - 9 One of the Final Assy shots at The Rouge is a 1949 Ford, a very successful car, one that could be purchased with factory colors other than black jjaba: Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 3725 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209 216 150 127
Discuss Detroit: Fords Most Advanced Assembly Plant Operates in rural . . . this car factory isn't taking jobs away from Americans The demand for cars in S America is huge and the import tax rates in Brazil are out of this world It is more cost-effective for Ford to build a plant there - this is actually the 2nd Ford plant in Bahia Add the freight costs to get the cars from the US to Brazil and Ford would be losing