Lincolns, Mustangs, T-Birds at Ford Factory

[rick]

https://www.thelincolnforum.net/phpbb3/ ... w&id=44041

A friend sent me this photo because the Lincoln pictured on the Car Hauler is approx the same color as mine.

[Mike]

Cool! As you know I like those older pictures.

[LithiumCobalt]

Always wanted this in poster size, but never quite found out how to get it done.

[Lee]

Get the highest definition online version you can find, and send it to Vistaprint. I recently created custom car door magnets like 2x3’ (they also do simple posters) with a picture of our church on it, and sent it to them…reasonable price and looks great.
https://www.vistaprint.com/signs-posters/posters

[frasern]

I like 'em all, even the F700 haulers!

[daves]

Great photo but where was it taken? I'm seeing Mustangs and other non Lincolns in the photo. My thought is that it was taken at the Rouge and the Lincolns were trucked from Wixom.
At that point they would have been shuffled and put on to trucks and railcars going to the various distribution points

[Dan Szwarc]

This is likely Ford's River Rouge Factory in 1965 per Reddit.

I found this image all over the internet.

[1Bad55Chevy]

First response on that Reddit post and it's so so true!


3 yr. ago
"The River Rouge plant is more than anything else the emblem of American car manufacturing. At its peak in the 1930's and 1940's, it employed more than 100,000 people and had its own steel plant, power station and docks. Today, it employs only around 6,000 with most of the work done by robots or shifted off-site.

I've always thought that kind of sad or melancholy. A prime example of American industrial might reduced to a shell of what it once was."

[Dan Szwarc]

I was trying to find more pics of the Rouge, but confirmed they made Mustangs there. Since the Lincolns were made a short distance away in Wixom, Michigan, they would have been trucked in to be put on rail for other destinations.

[Lee]

It seems unlikely that Ford would bother trucking Lincolns to River Rouge; Wixom was a railroad hub. I think the photo was pure Hollywood.

[1Bad55Chevy]

It seems unlikely that Ford would bother trucking Lincolns to River Rouge; Wixom was a railroad hub. I think the photo was pure Hollywood.

Typically suites don't hang around transport trucks... Thats a little to deep in the weeds for them!

[1Bad55Chevy]

Super cool flow chart I found of the plant. From ore to auto in 28 hours! I don't know the year this was printed but it's cool!

[TonyC]

This is all quite interesting history. It helps me make sense of something that Richard Schierloh, who was a designer at Ford, said in a Collectible Automobile interview a few years ago. He said he had sat in on a meeting where somebody was discussing the '58 Lincolns; this somebody (Schierloh didn't provided his name) suggested that after the first several thousand were built, they should have been pushed into the Rouge River.

Of course, that was then. Now, any survivors command nostalgic care, even if they still make the Edsels of that year look conservative.

---Tony

[Dan Szwarc]

Staging the photo for a photo op is possible.

[daves]

That's a point about it being a staged photo is a good. Wixom was served by both the Grand Trunk and the C&O