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Funny that Charlie Chaplin would go on to make a movie that put a negative ‘cast’ on assembly line work! That demolition occurred about nine years after Henry’s death, by the way.Īs proof of that pride, here’s Edsel, Charlie Chaplin in the middle and Henry Ford. He gave a tour of them in this video- you can see one running. Henry Ford was VERY proud of that building and those power plant engines, the largest in the world at the time.

The generators were made by Crocker Wheeler company of New York.ĭescription of the exhibit at the Henry Ford

#DOES HIGHLAND PARK TEXAS HAVE POWER GENERATOR#

The 250 volt DC generator can be seen on the other side. Photo of Paul with flywheel on the engine side Ford had it laid out this way so everyone could see the whole thing. In the factory the floor in the above photo would have been ‘ground level’, in this one I’d have been in the basement- Mr. Mfg by Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co, Hamilton, OH The specifications are fairly incredible: Photo of engine inside HF Museum – They numbered each side so this was actually #6 engine, #11 &12 gas and steam, making one ‘engine’. This is the one that was built in Oil City at Riverside Engine- they mention here the next one, a 5000hp engine that was ‘gas only’- then nine ‘gas-steam’ engines. Hamilton Ohio flood damage parlor card showing flood damage to the interior (text is a little hard to read but…) This postcard shows the damage to the exterior The plant was damaged as well so there was a delay between the 5000hp one and the first of the nine ‘gas-steam’ engines coming in.

In 1913 Hamilton suffered severe flooding and 200 died. Ford! The next ten were built in Hamilton, Ohio, the plant mentioned above. Gray left Riverside under the temptation of a very nice contract to work for Mr. The rest had to be built elsewhere as Mr. His return in 1937 seems to confirm that as well.) (I searched all through that directory, made a list of all the ‘draughtsman’ and other employees then searched Detroit directories and grandpa is the only one that I could find that came to Detroit with Gray. Gray ‘partnered’ with Smithman from 1905 to 1909 when he left for Highland Park. Smithman who owned the street car company there and was used to service those engines. Note that each engine was actually connected to a 250 volt DC generator, not an alternator.ġ906 City of Oil City directory showing my grandfather (Elmer LeSuer) working at Riverside-Īpparently the building they used in Oil City had belonged to a Mr.

How it was moved-By Roy Schumann from the Benson Ford Oral History archiveġ400- 1500hp it’s the same engine! From a 1909 issue of Power and the Engineer magazine. Ford had his guys run the power lines over the city’s approval but… who knows! And that was in part because of a dispute with Edison Electric of all things! After that power was supplied from the Rouge plant- some say Mr. That one was moved in 1929 and was the first item moved there as they couldn’t do it once the teak floors were laid down. The power plant engines were scrapped in late 1920s with only one saved- the one that’s in the Henry Ford Museum. The clouds in the sky make it appear that the smokestacks are operating, when in fact there are no engines in the plant to produce smoke!īelow is Paul’s story of what actually happened to the huge DC generators inside, and why they went silent in the 1926 time frame. WWII era photo showing the Executive Offices in the foreground and the silent smoke stacks of the Power Plant Building. The building existed until after WWII, but the smoke stacks were silent from the day that power became available from the River Rouge plant’s generating station. When we wrote about the Highland Park Plant in a previous issue of Model T Ford Fix we got the attention of Paul Rentz who has researched the subject to a greater extent than we have.

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