William Clay Ford at Work on Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines, Ford Rouge Plant, September 1943

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Artifact Overview

Although Ford Motor Company wartime production of B-24 Bombers at its Willow Run Plant is better known, the company also produced Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines at its Rouge Plant facility during World War II. William Clay Ford (1925-2014), Henry Ford's grandson and Edsel and Eleanor Clay Ford's youngest child, is shown here working on one of these engines.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

13 September 1943

Subject Date

13 September 1943

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.833.78635.A

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: 11 in
Width: 8.25 in