Clean? Look at the stack of brooms at W2-10!
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Originally Posted by
MikeM
Thanks xdet.
Reminds me of the inside of a prison. I'm surprised at how clean it is if the photo is from 1926. Looks like it was taken when the shop was newly built.
Go to amazon.com and check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Rational-Facto...01&sr=8-1#noop
The Rational Factory by Lindy Biggs. Use the "Search Inside" feature and go to page 123. That's where he explains the features of the craneway in the "new shop". The chapter about the new shop starts on page 118.
Funny you should mention how clean it was- look at the stack of brooms at W2-10!
Yes, Ford didn't invent a lot of things- or come up with a number of new ideas but no one put the concepts together like Ford. Even today, Ford [[the company) didn't take any government money- just like Henry never borrowed money to build his first major plants. And if he wasn't so stubborn holding onto the Model T for so long, who knows where Ford would be today.
Update on WXYZ craneway date for the photo.
Update- I know this photo is from much earlier than 1926 as the platforms were 'caged' around 1916 or so, I've recently discovered. Most likely this is from very early in the life of the WXYZ building.