Ford Motor Company Headlight Plant, Flat Rock, Michigan, 1942
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Ford Motor Company opened an automotive lamp factory near the Huron River at Flat Rock, Michigan, in 1923. Water-driven turbines supplied the plant's electricity. The nearby dam also served as a bridge that carried both the factory's access road and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad across the Huron River. Ford ended production at the plant in 1950.
Ford Motor Company opened an automotive lamp factory near the Huron River at Flat Rock, Michigan, in 1923. Water-driven turbines supplied the plant's electricity. The nearby dam also served as a bridge that carried both the factory's access road and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad across the Huron River. Ford ended production at the plant in 1950.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
27 July 1942
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.189.17197
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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