Mission Accomplished....well partly. We managed to see the Museum and do the Factory Tour. I would love to see the Village but that will have to wait till next visit. Henry Ford Museum contains and displays approximately 25% of the entire Ford Collection. The museum alone covers 40 acres. I can't begin to imagine the value of all the displays. More than anything else I came away with an awe of the man himself. What vision. This is a man to read about.
The actual tour of the factory assembly line was very interesting. Two shifts a day make 1100 F150's. Where the heck these are going to and who is buying them just baffels my brain. This is only one of their models. There were two short movies at the factory tour telling the vision and history of Henry Ford. His family is now running all operations. Below is the one of the few pictures I was able to take of the progression of the Ford line. I came away at the end of the day with a better understanding of the assembly of vehicles, all streamlined and automated because of Henry Ford's vision.
After the factory tour we were shuttled back on their tour bus transportation to the museum. Henry Ford must own half of Detroit, and all for his museum and village.
The building holding the museum and the grounds is beautiful.
But first lunch
I want the receipe for this chicken pot pie. It was delicious, in spite of my less than appetizing photo.
Eating in the diner was fun too. Back to the 40's, I think. Below is inside the diner called Lambys.
Looking towards the front of the engine of the Allegheny from the engineers window.
Engineer Bill inside. There are two stations inside.
All aboard. Felt like a train station.
Okay so that was the trains....now the planes.
Or a few of the dozens on display.
Wingwalker! How would you like this job?
Yikes! Who hasn't had a day that feels like this!
I don't know man...this just doesn't seem like the right way to display a plane. Just wrong.
This barely fit inside the building.
Did someone mention we thought this museum was about car? Hmmmmm...trust me there are also lots and lots of cars. Here's a few shots. The first one is the limosine John F. Kennedy was shot in 1962.
A few photos of the rows of cars, from the late 1890's to the1990's.
Gosh, we once had a NASH. Ugly thing.
We've all gone over potholes and bumps that felt like this!
Ah, the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. I know one politician who probably drives one just like it.
A complete house made of aluminium and round. House of the future. I think that was the future of 1920.
A complete section of thrashers, trashers, combines, lobines, harvesters, slackers, lackers, tractors, geez....on and on. I might have a few of these names wrong....ya think?
There's even the bus Rosa Parks refused to move to the back on display.
A Woman's Rights display.
Anyone interested in a wood stove?
And one of my last posted pictures is the actual chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot!
Thanks for visiting. Dinner time.
4 comments:
That was really interesting. Thanks, Susan, for the tour. Gail
My pleasure.
Nice tour with so many familiar-looking photos,so many memories. I'm still fascinated with the round aluminum house-what an interesting concept.
Beth
Remember the house of the future at Disneyland by Monsanto...that was a round house too but I think it was a 1950's concept of the future. The aluminum one was really interesting because it was based on a ship, i.e. the head, galley, etc.
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