Manufacturing Wooden Body Parts for Ford Station Wagons, Iron Mountain Plant, December 1946
THF291398 / Manufacturing Wooden Body Parts for Ford Station Wagons, Iron Mountain Plant, December 1946
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Artifact Overview
Ford Motor Company's Iron Mountain plant, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, produced wood body frames and parts for the automaker's various models. After Ford adopted all-steel sedan bodies for the 1937 model year, Iron Mountain focused on station wagon bodies. Some 300 skilled craftspeople worked at the plant until 1952, when Ford wagons switched to all-steel bodies.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
13 December 1946
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.83693.5
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10.938 in
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In pursuit of self-sufficient automobile manufacture, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company purchased over 313,000 acres of timberland for logging in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A massive sawmill complex and powerful hydroelectric plant were constructed at Iron Mountain. Here, sawmill workers produced huge quantities of lumber for wooden automobile framework, floorboards, and wheels.