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	SPECTRUM Biographies - Henry Ford
		Ford was employed as an apprentice in a machine shop, where he learned about the internal combustion engine.
		Ford was able to market the Model T to the general public because of his advanced production technology.
		Ford's son Edsel died in 1943, and Ford resumed the presidency.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Ford.html (622 words)

	Highland Park Ford Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Highland Park Ford Plant was a production plant for Ford Motor Company in the city of Highland Park, Michigan, which is surrounded by Detroit.
		The Highland Park Ford Plant was designed by Albert Kahn in 1908 and was opened in 1910.
		In the late 1920s Ford moved automobile assemby to the River Rouge Plant complex in nearby Dearborn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland_Park_Ford_Plant (178 words)

	Ford Mustang Pics, Stats & History
		The car manufacturer known as the Ford Motor Company was founded in Highland Park, Michigan on June 16th, of 1909 by Henry Ford and a handful of other instors together accumulating $28,000.
		Ford released it's Model T in 1908 and originally built their first vehicle at the Highland Park Ford Plant.
		Soon they were forced to move to plant that could develop more vehicles, and by 1913 they had built the very first moving assembly line in the world, conveying them into the realms of mass production.
	www.carchaos.com /ford_mustang (800 words)

	Ford Motor Company - Highland Park Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant is significant for being, among other things, where Henry Ford first began the mass production of automobiles (specifically, the "Model T") on a moving assembly line in 1913.
		The plant was also the site where Ford instituted the "five dollar day," a generous wage for the time.
		The Highland Park Plant was built between 1909 and 1920 on the lot bounded by Woodward, Manchester and Oakland Avenues, and three railroad tracks.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/13754/places/37278 (224 words)

	MPR: Ford confirms shutdown of St. Paul plant
		Ford officials announced the closing Thursday, along with the closing of another truck plant in Virginia.
		Ford expects to produce the 2009 line of Rangers in St. Paul, which means idling the plant sometime in 2008.
		Ford's Mark Fields, however, says there is no possibility of retrofitting or otherwise continuing to use the plant in St. Paul.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/04/13/fordclosure (1611 words)

	Ford Richardson Bryan Passes Away at 92
		Ford R. Bryan was born in Crystal, Michigan on May 13, 1912, his father who worked at Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant from 1916-1919, was the superintendent of schools in Crystal at the time of Ford's birth.
		Ford was then transferred to the Scientific Lab at the Research and Engineering Center where he finished the last 23 years of his career at Ford Motor Company.
		Ford was a member of Sigma X fraternity, the American Chemical Society, the Physical Society, the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, The Friends of The Henry Ford, in addition to the Henry Ford Heritage Association.
	www.hfha.org /biobryan.htm (1222 words)

	TODAY in Ford History--Dec. 10
		Ford offered nine different body styles on the same chassis, while after-market kits converted the Model T into a truck, tractor or even an early snowmobile.
		Ford Times, a company publication, said: “It would be difficult to name any other American-made piece of machinery—least of all one requiring such exact workmanship as a gasoline motor—that has been manufactured in a quantity of one million, and which still is made with change, in growing numbers to meet the demand.”
		Henry Ford called it “the universal car,” a low-cost, reliable vehicle that could be maintained easily and could successfully travel the poor roads of the era.
	media.ford.com /print_doc.cfm?article_id=13925 (602 words)

	Highland District Council
		Highland's earliest residents, estimated at six families, lived in the vicinity of Elsie Lane and Mississippi River Boulevard.
		Other major developments in the 1920s were the construction of the Ford Bridge in 1927 (to get Ford workers from their Minneapolis homes to the plant), and the construction of the Highland Water Tower in 1927.
		The intersection of Cleveland Avenue and Ford Parkway received its development stimulus in 1938 with the announcement that the $1 million Highland Manor Apartment City would be built on the southwest corner of the intersection.
	www.highlanddistrictcouncil.org /articles/article.php?q=78 (853 words)

	Highland Park Ford Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By 1920 the plant turned out a car every minute, and one out of every two automobiles in the world was a Model T. The rapid pace of production enabled Ford to pay his workers far higher wages, but it also created a relentless monotony that many of his employees detested.
		The Highland Park Ford Plant, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, was also revolutionary for its design.
		The Highland Park Ford Plant is approximately 4.5 miles from downtown Detroit.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/detroit/d32.htm (236 words)

	Henry Ford: American anti-Semitism and the class struggle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ford’s impact on Hitler was evidenced by a framed photograph of the industrialist that hung on Hitler’s office wall.
		Ernest Liebold, Ford’s second-in-command, was a life-long and bitter anti-Semite.
		Ford was born in 1863 in Dearbornville, Michigan, the “rural backwoods of fundamentalist America,” in Baldwin’s words.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/apr2003/ford-a18.shtml (4841 words)

	Ford
		Every Ford Dealer was furnished with a small booklet which detailed the features and type of construction of the various assemblies of the Model T, the TT and the Fordson Tractor.
		The top tank and sides of the Ford radiator are covered by a shell of fl enameled sheet steel which enhances the appearance of the car, and has a more durable finish than would be possible were the enamel applied directly to the radiator proper.
		Of the 3 gallons of water in the Ford cooling system 2 gallons is in the radiator; the remainder is in the water jackets of the motor and the two pipes leading to them.
	www.mtfca.com /books/ford.htm (14620 words)

	800-CEO-READ Blog: More on Ford--From Jim Womack on Ford's History--and Future
		By 1914 at his Highland Park plant Ford had located most of the manufacturing steps for his product – the Model T – in one building and had created very nearly continuous flow in many parts of the operation, using single-piece-flow fabrication cells for components in addition to the moving final assembly line.
		Ford’s span of management control at Highland Park had been remarkably broad because he could easily take a walk to see the condition of every process, in design, assembly, and fabrication.
		Soon Ford executives using the financial measures developed by finance czar J. Edward Lundy were even more rigorous in analyzing the performance of their area of control than GM executives.
	800ceoread.com /blog/archives/006458.html (1628 words)

	Ford Case: Background Information
		The area surrounding the plant, known as Highland Park, includes a shopping center, playgrounds and schools, single and multiple family residences, a low-rise apartment complex, and a senior citizen's high-rise (built in the 1960s on land gifted to the city by Ford).
		Passing through the park and along the west of the plant, and continuing all along the river, is a heavily used jogging and biking trail (see map).
		Ford thus has an option to move its plant to an area where the population is less dense and where more lenient pollution regulations promote local industry.
	www1.umn.edu /ships/cases/ford/info.htm (2838 words)

	Industrial Economist - the business magazine from South - International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was here that Ford and his engineers developed many of the crucial principles of modern mass production; the most notable was the continuously moving assembly line.
		Ford put the world on wheels and brought rural and urban America together by allowing movement between the two.
		Ford believed that the wage would allow those who built cars to buy cars and that eight hours would give workers more time with their families.
	www.indeconomist.com /300603_ford.html (1349 words)

	Highland Park - UrbanPlanet.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Highland Park is a city of almost 17,000 that is completely surrounded by the city of Detroit.
		The Davison Freeway, the first urban freeway in America was built to bring the employees who worked at this Ford factory in Highland Park to their jobs from their homes in Detroit.
		The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, which was where the first model T was built, is being restored by the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=2780 (671 words)

	Ford Plant Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ford is now applying to the state to renew the plant's operating permit, reissued every 5 years.
		The Ford Plant (stack in distance) borders a senior-citizen high rise (left)--on land donated by Ford.
		However, numbers on Ford's costs were estimated and other facts have been changed to make the case more complete and suitable for a discussion on ethical responsibilities.
	www1.umn.edu /ships/cases/ford (442 words)

	Henry Ford: The Mussolini of Highland Park
		The Ford organization is unique in that it is one man's realization of what an enterprise should be -- a despotism pure and simple, which has succeeded magnificently, because it was intelligently and constructively conceived and because it was based on fair dealing and a practical humanitarianism.
		It is Ford who decides when and how a glass plant shall be built, Ford who fixes the wages and hours of labor, Ford who approves or disapproves of the plans that have been drawn for some new, daring, automatic machine; Ford who decides at what price the new car shall be sold.
		Ford is a living reality to every one of the 125,000 men in his employ.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine/thirties1.html (1545 words)

	Model T Plant - Highland Park - The Classic Tour
		in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park is still in partial use as a warehouse.
		Home of the moving assembly line and designed by industrial architect giant, Albert Kahn, the world beat a path to its door fueling the second industrial revolution and catapulting Detroit to wealth and fame.
		In its last days of vehicle manufacturing, it produced Ford tractors.
	detroityes.com /industry/02modelt.htm (109 words)

	wcco.com - St. Paul Ford Plant's Future Remains Uncertain
		Paul Workers at the Ford plant in St. Paul's Highland Park are uncertain about their future, after Ford Motor Co. reported a third-quarter loss of $284 million and promised that sweeping cuts will be announced in January.
		The Highland Park plant, which employs about 2,000 people, has been operating below capacity, and it was idled 12 weeks during the first seven months of 2005.
		If the St. Paul Ford plant isn't on the list of plants that will close, plant workers said they'll focus on negotiations for their next contract.
	wcco.com /business/local_story_294073117.html (446 words)

	MPR: Ford plant: from Rangers to homes and retail?
		Ford's total vehicle sales fell five percent last year, and the company is under pressure to reduce its production capacity.
		So state and city officials are concerned Ford may quit the 80-year-old plant, eliminating nearly 2,000 high-paying jobs in the process.
		Highland Park has become one of the most sought-after residential locations in the city.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2006/01/04_helmsm_fordplant (802 words)

	1914
		The facts are that the 1914 style began in later 1913, perhaps as early as August, at the Highland Park plant.
		It is quite likely that Ford came up with the modified body with the sheet metal coupling the two sections, typical of the 1914 through 1925 bodies, before September 1913.
		Ford never admitted to using gas lamps on a “1915” and it is possible that owners, unhappy with the poor electric lights, replaced them with the older gas type.
	www.mtfca.com /encyclo/1914H.htm (2090 words)

	HIGHLAND
		It is bound on the north by Randolph Avenue, on the east by Interstate 35E and on the south and west by the Mississippi River.
		Highland Park is a residential area developed after World War I although a number of notable much older houses survive.
		Several housing developments were planned and the Highland Park Pavilion, now the golf club, was built at 103 Montreal in 1929.
	www.rchs.com /highland.htm (1250 words)

	Highland Park, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Highland Park also known as "H.P." or "H Pilla" is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		About 32.1% of families and 38.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 47.1% of those under age 18 and 30.8% of those age 65 or over.
		The loss of stability in the community and economic development, caused partly by crime, mismanagement, disinvestments and racism, contributed to the city becoming one of the most crime ridden place in the United States by the mid-1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland_Park,_Michigan (665 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Highland Park Ford Plant
		A silent flick which details activities in the Ford plant.
		One looks to be made in the 20's featuring an overview of the plant.
		We're startled for a second, thinking we're still in the 1920's footage, but actually, this was made in the late 50's it looks like, a man with crutches unveils a plaque that tells the plant is the birthplace of the Model T. After that, there's nothing to do except to tear it down.
	www.archive.org /details/highland_park_ford_plant (126 words)

	DesignMichigan - Design Resources - Statewide Design Resources
		Lafayette Park Pavilion Apartments A, LA This 1959 complex of 186 low-rise apartments designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe are arranged around cul-de-sacs and consist of one-story court houses and two-story town houses.
		The inside of the doughnut features a large interior auto court which is accessed by a narrow opening in the towering walls (strangely reminiscent of the entrance to the Emerald City in the film the Wizard of Oz).
		The central area is rimmed with a dramatic circle drive (Ford used it to shoot ads and to show concept cars) within which are a series of visually fascinating undulating landscape strips and pathways.
	www.designmichigan.org /design_resources/notable.html (3024 words)

	Home Page
		I'm a native Detroiter, born in Highland Park, about 3 miles from the Chrysler Highland Park plant (and 5 from the old Highland Park Ford plant).
		I got my first newspaper job, part-time, while a freshman at the University of Detroit in 1947 as a reporter/rewrite man on The Wage Earner, a labor paper sponsored by the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists in the 1930s to combat the Communist influence on unions that was prevalent then.
		I later worked for Ford as a reporter on The Rouge News and editor of the Research and Engineering Center News after that facility opened in 1952.
	www.forwardlook.net /members/kenskorner (507 words)

	Henry Ford Heritage Association Ford Rouge Assembly Mustang Tour 2004
		The Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant was built between 1909 and 1920 on a 60-acre site bounded by Woodward, Manchester and Oakland Avenues, and the adjacent railroad lines.
		At this plant Ford introduced the automotive industry's first moving assembly line in 1913 and the $5 day in 1914, more than doubling wages overnight, while cutting the work day from 9 to 8 hours.
		By 1915 Ford built a million Model T's at the facility and in 1925 over 9,000 were assembled here in a single day.
	www.hfha.org /highlandpark.htm (235 words)

	The Great American Landmarks Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1910, the Ford Motor Company moved to its new plant in Highland Park, designed by architect Albert Kahn.
		When the first floor became too busy, however, final assembly took place outside the plant--car bodies were guided down a special ramp, then attached to the frames and tires.
		The first assembly-line Model T Ford came out of the Highland Park plant in 1914.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/pad/adventure/highland.htm (121 words)

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