
	Where results make sense

Topic: Piquette Plant

Related Topics

Ford Motor Company

List of Ford vehicles

Ford Model T

Highland Park Ford Plant

Mercury Comet

Mercury Grand Marquis

Lincoln (automobile)

Jaguar (car)

Mazda

Aston Martin

Mercury (automobile)

Land Rover

Volvo Cars

Mercury Colony Park

House (astrology)

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Homecoming of a Model N Ford
		The occasion was the result of a request of the History Channel which wanted to film a short feature (7 minutes) on the Ford cars before the Model T. The photos on this web page were taken over the course of the day between breaks in filming.
		It was probably taken in the fall of 1905 or early 1906 and it shows Clara Ford (Driving) and an unknown female passenger (accounts identifying this person vary according to the source) with the Piquette factory in the back ground.
		She belongs to Rick Lindner and is a 1903 Model A Ford (#1098!).
	oz.plymouth.edu /~trentb/ModelT/Homecoming/Homecoming.html (586 words)

	Woodward Avenue: Woodward Heritage: Woodward Stories
		The Ford Motor Company's second factory, the Piquette Plant in Detroit, was only a few years old when Henry Ford and his staff realized the need for a much larger facility that could handle increasing output and take better advantage of the lessons learned from experiments to promote greater efficiency.
		The plant would eventually be bounded to the west by Woodward Avenue, to the north by railroad tracks below Ferris Avenue; to the east by Oakland Avenue, and to the south by Manchester Avenue.
		Among the plant structures that remain are four 6-story concrete buildings and the famed factory "H" where the continuous moving assembly line process came to fruition.
	www.woodwardavenue.us /heritage/stories/view/?storyid=2 (4976 words)

	E-M-F Homepage - Factory Photo Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The distance from Piquette to the railroad tracks is not nearly as far as the artist has depicted, unless the tracks have moved since then.
		Piquette street basically runs east-west in a south-west to north-east diection and is only a couple of blocks north of I-94.
		This plant was built in 1906 and was the Wayne automobile plant prior to becoming the E-M-F 30 Plant.
	dreamwater.org /emfauto/EMF_photos_factory.html (2838 words)

	E-M-F Homepage - Factory Photo Archive (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The distance from Piquette to the railroad tracks is not nearly as far as the artist has depicted, unless the tracks have moved since then.
		Piquette street basically runs east-west in a south-west to north-east diection and is only a couple of blocks north of I-94.
		This plant was built in 1906 and was the Wayne automobile plant prior to becoming the E-M-F 30 Plant.
	www.dreamwater.org /emfauto/EMF_photos_factory.html (2838 words)

	Ford's Model T plant made a landmark - Boston.com
		The former Ford Motor Co. Piquette Plant, the birthplace of auto pioneer Henry Ford's Model T, was designated a National Historic Landmark on Tuesday.
		DETROIT --The former Ford Motor Co. Piquette Plant, the birthplace of auto pioneer Henry Ford's Model T, was designated a National Historic Landmark on Tuesday.
		The plant, which was where the first Model Ts were produced and served as the automaker's home from 1904 to 1910, was designated by Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/02/21/fords_model_t_plant_made_a_landmark (182 words)

	Macomb Daily : Sports : Heritage group opens factory where Ford developed Model T 10/01/04
		Built in 1904 to Ford's specifications, the Piquette plant was actually the second home of Ford Motor Co. Ford used a rented building on Mack Avenue in 1903 before moving to Piquette.
		Located on the third floor of the plant, at the farthest corner from the entrance, the room is in plain sight, but was kept constantly locked and only Ford and one or two trusted assistants were allowed inside.
		To reach the Piquette plant from Macomb County, travel west on Interstate 94 to exit 215C, the Woodward Ave./Brush St. exit.
	www.macombdaily.com /stories/100104/bus_model%207001.shtml (1074 words)

	Piquette Model T
		The Ford Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit may be the most significant auto-heritage site in the world.
		Built in 1904, the plant is the birthplace of the Model T. The New England mill-style structure is the first building built for Ford Motor Company.
		And it served as the prototype for the Model T. The plant is located in an area known as Milwaukee Junction, the emerging auto industry's central location after the turn of the last century.
	www.tplex.org /2_historyofmdlt.html (201 words)

	Neighborhood Link TM - News Articles
		Visitors enjoyed viewing cars that the Piquette Plant produced from 1904 to 1910, such as the Model T, N, K, S, and A. Jerald Mitchell's, Founder and CEO of T-Plex, objective is to restore the plant to its circa 1904-1910 appearance.
		"The Piquette Plant is the birthplace of the Model T - the most important car of the 20th Century, it's also where the first moving assembly line was conceived, that's why the Piquette Plant is worth preserving, it's part of the American culture," said Jerald.
		The Piquette Avenue Plant sits on 3.11 acres on the corner of Beaubien and Piquette.
	www.neighborhoodlink.com /public/newsart.html?nid=622782357&nneighid=576330297&nsupercity=178452061 (408 words)

	Piquette: Ford's Best-Kept Secret? - The Car Connection
		It is Ford's historic Piquette Avenue plant in mid-town not far from Woodward Avenue and the Wayne State University campus.
		Piquette is unlike most surviving pioneer auto plants because it is built in the old New England mill style with heavy wood beams and posts enclosed in a brick envelope rather than the multi-story, reinforced concrete of Albert Kahn design typified by the contemporary Packard plant.
		Piquette measures a long 402 feet from the avenue after which it is named back to the railroad tracks to the north, the long side running along Beaubien Street.
	www.thecarconnection.com /index.asp?article=6117 (1128 words)

	RECENT ARTICLE
		The threatened Ford Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit, the birthplace of the Model T, and the first building built and owned by the Ford Motor Company was acquired by preservationists in April 2000.
		T-PLEX is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the restoration of the historic Ford Piquette Avenue Plant to its circa 1904-1910 appearance in accordance with Secretary of the Interior Standards, and to the interpretation and celebration of automobile culture in America.
		Piquette is designated as a State historic Site and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.tophatjohn.com /CN0603.htm (692 words)

	Piquette Model T
		Ford Highland Park Plant, 15050 Woodward Avenue, Highland Park: Known as the Crystal Palace for its incredible use of glass, Henry Ford moved his auto operations to this plant in 1910 from the Piquette Avenue factory.
		The Ford Highland Park Plant is 5.3 miles from the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant.
		Ford Motor Company Henry Ford II World Center, One American Road, Dearborn: Built in 1956 and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the building is often referred to as "The Glass House." Originally dedicated as the New Central Office, it was renamed in 1996 after Henry Ford's oldest grandson, Henry Ford II.
	www.tplex.org /1_fordsites.html (892 words)

	Group works to restore birthplace of Ford's universal car - 5/18/02
		Some details about the former Ford Motor Co. Piquette Plant, which preservationists hope to convert into an automotive interpretive center focusing on the history of the Model T: -- Designed by Field, Hinchman and Smith, a predecessor of architectural, engineering and planning firm SmithGroup Inc., the three-story, 66,000-square-foot plant was built in 1904.
		The plant stands in a part of the city where the automotive industry matured, growing from small clusters near the Detroit River.
		Ford sold the Piquette plant to competitor Everitt, Metzger and Flanders, which was swallowed up by fellow automaker Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Co. in 1910.
	www.evansluptak.com /jmitchell.htm (1250 words)

	Henry Ford Changes the World, 1908
		They gave a king-sized drawing which, when all initial refinements had been made, could be photographed for two purposes: as a protection against patent suits attempting to prove prior claim to originality and as a substitute for blueprints.
		It was then that the idea occurred to me that assembly would be easier, simpler, and faster if we moved the chassis along, beginning at one end of the plant with a frame and adding the axles and the wheels; then moving it past the stockroom, instead of moving the stockroom to the chassis.
		The process began at the top floor of the four-story building where the engine was assembled and progressed level by level to the ground floor where the body was attached to the chassis.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /ford.htm (1955 words)

	Piquette Plant - Definition, explanation
		The Piquette Plant was the second home of Ford Motor Company automobile production.
		During 1907, in a room at the northwest corner of the third floor of the "Piquette Plant", Henry Ford and a small team of dedicated engineers developed the Model T, the car that would change the world.
		The first production Model T was built at Piquette on September 27, 1908.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pi/piquette_plant.php (222 words)

	MI State Historic Preservation Objects
		The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is located approximately five miles north of the Detroit River in a section of the City of Detroit just east of Woodward Avenue between the Ford Freeway (I-94) on the south and East Grand Boulevard on the North, known as Milwaukee Junction.
		Residential development had not yet reached this far northward when the Ford Piquetter Plant was built in 1904, but the rail lines were already established, making it attractive to the several automobile and automobile related companies that located there in the early years of the twentieth century.
		The south (Piquette Avenue) elevation is the front and exhibits Late Victorian influences with a tripartite arrangement of bays with a low gable over the center.
	www.mcgi.state.mi.us /hso/sites/68516.htm (364 words)

	KarenDeCoster.com Web Log: The Forgotten Brilliance of Henry Ford Archives
		It is not an exaggeration to say that Henry Ford changed the face of capitalism and reinvented industry with the development of the Model T automobile.
		Just a few miles from my home sits the glorious Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, where the first Model T rolled off the line 95 years ago, with next week being the anniversary date.
		Little is known about how Ford came about designing the perfect plant - on Piquette Street, in Detroit - to accomodate light, air flow, fire retardation, and one of the world's first industry-efficient sprinkler systems, designed by a local guy in Michigan, with whom Ford worked closely.
	www.karendecoster.com /blog/archives/000504.html (434 words)

	Flames char piece of Detroit auto heritage - 06/22/05
		As firefighters doused the last of a mighty blaze Tuesday that destroyed the former Studebaker Piquette Avenue Plant near New Center, historians fretted for the future of nearby factories that housed many of the nation's early carmakers.
		The plant's fortunes mirror those of other old factories in Milwaukee Junction, which was so named because it straddled Milwaukee Street and the Grand Trunk Railroad.
		Likewise, the Ford Piquette Plant is in the midst of restoration, while the nearby Fisher Body Plant 21 has become a rotting hulk.
	www.detnews.com /2005/metro/0506/22/A01-223817.htm (976 words)

	EXHIBITOR magazine - Article: Inside Henry Ford's Lost Factory, July 2003
		Imagine the surprise, then, when someone at Ford remembered a vital but completely neglected piece of Ford history — the company’s long lost and forgotten Piquette Avenue Plant — the factory where Henry Ford invented and manufactured the Model T that would be heralded as the Car of the Century.
		Located in Detroit’s famed “Auto Alley” — the plant had been sold to Studebaker in 1911, to the 3M Company in the 1930s, and then to a series of other owners over the years.
		Once journalists arrived at the plant, they went by elevator to the third floor and wandered around the 1 1/2 football field-long factory.
	www.exhibitoronline.com /exhibitormagazine/article.asp?ID=357 (1819 words)

	Piquette and the Model T - The Car Connection
		In 1904, Ford began building a factory, a three-story brick building that was nearly an entire city-block long and had an entrance on Piquette Avenue in the heart of Detroit.
		Today, the Piquette Avenue factory stands looking virtually the same as it did when it was built in 1904.
		A group called the Piquette Plant Preservation Project (PPPP) has organized to purchase the nearly empty building and transform it into a museum called the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex.
	www.thecarconnection.com /Enthusiasts/Classics_Corner/Memory_Lane/Piquette_and_the_Model_T.S218.A812.html (876 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ford Piquette Avenue plant is very close to this Fisher Body plant, the large Studebaker plant is also on Piquette.
		This plant is historically interesting since it illustrates the development of Albert Kahn's skills.
		The Ford plant resembles a mill and has few windows to admit any light, indeed, it must have been very dark inside.
	detroit1701.org /Fisher21.htm (203 words)

	PIQUETTE AVENUE PLANT
		The sale of Ford cars was rapidly expanding so Ford and his board of directors decided to purchase 3.11 acres on Piquette Avenue and build a major assembly plant.
		It was there that, from 1904 to 1908, Ford produced the models C, K, N, R, and S. In 1908, Ford combined all that he had learned from production of his earlier models and conceived, designed and built the first Model T Ford.
		The Model T Ford was produced at the Piquette plant from 1909 to 1910.
	www.chaffinsgarage.com /piquette.htm (314 words)

	Piquette Model T
		Detroit's Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the birthplace of the Model T. Today, it is the only example of an early Detroit auto factory open to visitors.
		The plant is open on the first and third Saturdays of each month between May and October.
		Tour the Model T plant and then spend the day visiting other museums and auto heritage-related sites in and around Detroit.
	www.tplex.org /1_overview.html (177 words)

	Ford Retired Execs to Mark Historic Piquette Plant
		The three-story Piquette Plant, constructed in 1904-1905 at the northwest corner of Piquette Avenue and Beaubien Street, was the first plant owned by Ford Motor Company.
		The Piquette Plant has been known as "the home of the Model T" because it was here that the famous "universal car" that "put the world on wheels" was designed and first produced late in 1908.
		Demand for the Model T was so great and the company so successful that Ford had to build its huge Highland Park Plant and abandon the almost-new Piquette facility in 1910.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/2003/05/23/161939.html (462 words)

	New Page 3
		The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant was built in 1904.
		The Model T, believed to be the most important car in history, was both conceived and first built at this plant.
		The long and narrow 3 story plant is approximately 60,000 square feet of brick and wood, measuring 56 x 402 feet.
	www.autocoast.com /TplexBody.htm (165 words)

	MotorCities: Experience Everything Automotive! - Pressroom: U.S. designates Model T birthplace a historic site (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DETROIT -- The former Ford Motor Co. Piquette Plant, a three-story brick factory that was the birthplace of auto industry pioneer Henry Ford's Model T, was designated a National Historic Landmark on Tuesday.
		The plant, where the first Model Ts were produced and the company's home from 1904 to 1910, was among a dozen sites to receive the designation by Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
		The aim of the organization is to preserve the plant and utilize it as a museum.
	www.experienceeverythingautomotive.org /news.asp?id=41 (502 words)

	Marketplace Automotive Review
		This is the Piquette plant, Henry Ford's first purpose-built auto factory.
		For a car buff to stand in that streaming light, walk among those pillars and on those creaking floors, considering what emanated from this space is like gazing at the arches of a great cathedral.
		And on this pewter evening, in the year of Ford's 100th anniversary, it was a spiritual moment to stand in the Piquette plant and ponder what great history flowed from such small quarters.
	www.slc-classifieds.com /automotive/articles/5587.asp (453 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: Ford Piquette Plant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Completed in 1904, the Piquette Avenue Plant was the first factory Built by the Ford Motor Company.
		New technology and demand for the Model T made the plant inadequate.
		In 1910 production was moved to a much larger plant in Highland Park, where the moving assembly line was implemented.
	www.michmarkers.com /pages/S0681.htm (164 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)