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Detroit: from rags to riches and back, and up again...
Tomorrow, July 30, it will be 150 years ago that the man who changed the face of Detroit - Henry Ford - was born. It is a sour grape this memorial day comes so very short after Detroit filing bankruptcy. We all know Henry's history: the fight against the Selden patent; the five-dollar day; the Tin-Lizzie and the success of his V-8. Starting in the humble shed -pictured above- his empire grew to the enormous River Rouge factory in Detroit. Several other automobile makers followed suit, eventually becoming the Big Three in Detroit: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. The city grew and prospered. But once the symbol of industrial welfare, the decline of the big three started in the 1970s, culminating today in the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit. It's a sad time for Detroit to celebrate Henry's birthday. Yet let's also look at the better news, that Motor Town is gradually is getting new interest from investors. And in one of todays sheds possibly a brilliant mind like Henry, is working on the fundaments of a shiny new Detroit.
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zondag juli 28th, 2013
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Onbekend
29 Juli 2013, 15:49
so there's a quandary, isn't there ? The greatest industrialist of the 20th century anti something. Is that good, bad or irrelevant ?
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Onbekend
29 Juli 2013, 11:15
A man with good points and bad. Not the father of mass-production but the inventor of the rolling assembly line. A fiercely political man with extremist views a rabid anti-semite.
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Onbekend
29 Juli 2013, 10:03
The Henry Ford museum in Detroit provides a great insight into the tremendous achievements of Henry Ford. Ford build their own power generation stations, and even glass required to manufacture the Ford Automobile and to of course industrialise this on a huge scale.
If you ever have an opportunity to visit the Henry Ford museum, it is a great celebration of his life. But also captures, much if what he admired, including the Laboratory of Thomas Edison, Early Locos, and great cars such as the Thomas Flyer. Even an American Diner.
I loved my visit there.
Harry
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If you ever have an opportunity to visit the Henry Ford museum, it is a great celebration of his life. But also captures, much if what he admired, including the Laboratory of Thomas Edison, Early Locos, and great cars such as the Thomas Flyer. Even an American Diner.
I loved my visit there.
Harry
Onbekend
29 Juli 2013, 06:42
YES, Yes, Yes... and not to be forgotten is the fact that it was with the nerture of Charles Brady KING... yep.. the V8 guy who got the LIBERTY design up and running, after designing/building and driving the first self propelled vehicle on the streets of Detroit.. with his'watcher' yours truly HENRY.. riding long side on his wheels... the crankcase of my V8 has a casting date of JUNE 1914. which allowing for startup design/trial and error means he was at it in 1913... the forgotten hero of America.... he would have made a great President..............John Ryder..
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