Two-Directional Automation Device at the Ford Motor Company Cleveland Engine Plant, January 1952

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Artifact Overview

Ford Motor Company built its Cleveland Engine Plant 1 at Brook Park, Ohio, in suburban Cleveland, in 1951. A second factory, Cleveland Engine Plant 2, opened there four years later. The site was well suited to manufacturing, with direct access to railroads and near Cleveland's busy port on Lake Erie. Engine Plant 2 closed in 2012.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

28 January 1952

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.536.P.833.98064.9

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: 8.125 in
Width: 10 in