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- Employees in the Powerhouse at the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, June 1939 - The powerhouse at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory was readily identified by its eight tall smokestacks. Steam turbines, fueled by pulverized coal, generated electricity for the massive Rouge complex -- and for Ford's Highland Park and Flat Rock plants, and for Lincoln's Detroit plant. The Rouge sometimes generated surplus power that could be sold to Detroit Edison Company.
- June 20, 1939
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Employees in the Powerhouse at the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, June 1939
The powerhouse at Ford Motor Company's Rouge factory was readily identified by its eight tall smokestacks. Steam turbines, fueled by pulverized coal, generated electricity for the massive Rouge complex -- and for Ford's Highland Park and Flat Rock plants, and for Lincoln's Detroit plant. The Rouge sometimes generated surplus power that could be sold to Detroit Edison Company.
- William Perry and Others in the Ford Rouge Plant Powerhouse, 1940 - In 1914, Henry Ford hired Ford Motor Company's first African American employee, a former bricklayer named William Perry. Perry had earned the now famous industrialist's respect years earlier, when the two worked together sawing trees for Ford's lumber business. Perry, seventh from the left in this photograph, worked in Ford's Highland Park Plant powerhouse until his death in 1940.
- January 12, 1940
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William Perry and Others in the Ford Rouge Plant Powerhouse, 1940
In 1914, Henry Ford hired Ford Motor Company's first African American employee, a former bricklayer named William Perry. Perry had earned the now famous industrialist's respect years earlier, when the two worked together sawing trees for Ford's lumber business. Perry, seventh from the left in this photograph, worked in Ford's Highland Park Plant powerhouse until his death in 1940.