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Highland Park Ford Plant

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The Highland Park Ford Plant is a former Ford Motor Company factory at 91 Manchester Street in Highland Park, Michigan. It was Ford's third factory and the second facility built for Model T production, but it is best known as the first factory in history to assemble automobiles on a moving assembly line, and it became a National Historic Landmark in 1978.

Facts
Year
1910 1
Significance
The first factory in history to assemble automobiles on a moving assembly line, a foundational milestone in modern mass-production engineering; designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. 1
Classification
Status
Retired or Decommissioned 1
Sources
1. Highland Park Ford Plant (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section, first sentence
    Highland Park was designed by Albert Kahn Associates in 1908 and was opened in 1910.
  • status sentence
    The Highland Park Ford Plant is a former Ford Motor Company factory at 91 Manchester Street in Highland Park, Michigan.
  • In Group: Automobile and Aircraft Assembly Plants, Introduction
    The Highland Park Ford Plant is a historic former Ford Motor Company factory located at 91 Manchester Street (at Woodward Avenue) in Highland Park, Michigan.
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