Hooven, Owens, Rentschler, and Company, Maker of Ford Highland Park Plant Gas-Steam Engines, circa 1910

THF125761 / Hooven, Owens, Rentschler, and Company, Maker of Ford Highland Park Plant Gas-Steam Engines, circa 1910

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1910

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.O.9560

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10.25 in

Keywords	United States, Ohio, Hamilton Photographic prints Photographs Engines (Power producing equipment) Factories (Structures) Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company (Hamilton, Ohio)

Artifact
Highland Park Plant Engine- Generator, 1915-1916
Ford's Model T mass production system would not have been practical without electricity; by 1919 nine of these Ford-designed hybrid internal combustion/steam engines generated the power needed by the Highland Park plant's assembly lines and associated machinery. By 1926 the engines were rendered obsolete when electricity was fed from the power plant at Ford's River Rouge plant ten miles away.