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Automotive History – A walk through the ruins of Detroit

Detroit was once the envy of the world. In 1900 was the heart of the automotive industry at the pinnacle of luxury and technology. During the Second World War was called “The Arsenal of Democracy” When the factories were restructured to build war machines. The intersection of Milwaukee, the heart of the automotive industry in prosperity was vibrant and alive, full of business and leisure Detroit is where the middle class was born rich and ordered the cars to order.

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Dodge, Ford Model T plant, American Axle, Body Murray. There is no town, the name of the community to build its plant in GM Boughton, a huge expansion center. The Ford Piquette building built in 1904 was the prototype for the assembly. Some men walked the line, the line did not move. The fascination was ruin old Packard plant at the intersection of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Junction was the heart of the automotive industry in 1900.

Packard was the brand with the cache of a Lexus or a Mercedes. At the beginning of the automotive industry, the manufacturing outsourcing model was. Packard built chassis. You can order the frame, engine, transmission. Then you had to request a catalog of the body a series of body-builders. What actually ordered the components of the body. There was a lot of customization. You literally designed in their own car. A true business model to measure. Packard was an elite brand price for the rich. You order your car like a fine suit. Otherwise only the cars around 200-1000 Either a model year. Least at its peak, which would otherwise build 55,000 vehicles a World War II año.Durante

Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin engines of our fighter jets. Detroit and the auto industry called Arsenal “of democracy.”

Without the industrial area of ​​Detroit take Germany had won World War II. It was surreal going to get up and walk around the decrepit ruins used to be the pinnacle of luxury technology and another in private. You could almost imagine what it must have paraben like to say many years ago. The ruins of the Packard plant must be a mile long and as high as eight stories. Vehicles moved from one floor to another in an assembly line using huge cranes. Giant sliding doors separate the sections of the assembly. Thousands of black middle-class Americans have worked there, coming and going during the shift change. Imagine lunch, thousands of people who leave the factory to eat in restaurants, shop in stores or enjoy the beautiful days Michigan. Today hardly a soul lives at the intersection of Milwaukee, is a ghost town.

Detroit is a melting pot of humanity. The waves of immigrants influenced the culture and fabric of life in the city. The first wave was in Europe. German, Finnish, Dutch, French, Eesti, Ireland. The next wave was in Eastern Europe, Poland, Ukraine, and the Serbs. In the 1930′s and 40 blacks migrated to Detroit from the South to escape oppression. Each Brough with him about their culture and customs kitchens, their religions and their values. Micro cultures had. Each wave of immigrants built churches on their own and in groups. You will find four Catholic churches in an area. One for German, one Irish, one has to say and the Eesti. Many of the churches and buildings are still standing. Many are crumbling as the Packard plant.

There is a road bridge over the plant, which used to have the Packard logo on it and the tag line “ask the man who has an” above the door of the plant. During the Depression, Packard decided to “lower the market, cheaper to produce a car for a wider audience. Otherwise create the model 120. The Packard 120 behind the quality, and a Packard seemed to be, but at a lower price. This move marked the demise of Packard. Otherwise lost in the cache and exclusivity among the rich.

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time was off. In 1941, he built another and introduced the Clipper. Then came the war and otherwise HAD to reorganize the war effort. Four years later, after the war, otherwise re-introduced the Clipper. If not sold a lot, and even through the end of 1950, which otherwise has sold more Packard, GM sells Cadillac, but the management was too conservative. The design of new 1949-1950 Clipper was dubbed “the Clipper pregnant. When otherwise had some problems Chrysler Supplier Briggs Boughton one of the suppliers of their body. What finally killed were expelled Packard quality problems.

In 1952-53, Jim Nance Packard Brough to lead the company. Talent and was brilliant, but realized several floors of the Packard plant like an albatross. He moved to a new factory that was dubbed “The box of crackers.” It was too small. was little men say they could not move, was dangerously close. Quality suffered. The final Packard produced beautifully designed with incredible engineering. Bu otherwise collapsed, and in 1956 the public behind them behind them enough.

Today the ruins are stripped Packard plant almost all metals. A few pictures of broken glass fragments remain. A musty smell emanating from the driveway full of junk. Strange things like a boat, equipment, tires, shoes and stuffed toys. We there are no homeless, the bodies or animals. Most of the decrepit Packard.

We also went to the Rouge plant is still operating. Raw materials enter the plant and the cars leave. Raw materials like steel, rubber. Huge piles of coal they are ready to heat the furnaces to melt steel then it is rolled and shape, cut and assembled. Ford Rouge where the plant is the only raw materials entering and leaving a car over.

Outside the Rouge complex is a memorial. There is a statue of bronze larger than the life of Henry Ford. Along the marble courtyard are carved pictures of historical events in the history of Ford. The images are not all favorable to Ford. Otherwise tell an incredible story. Then there is the bridge, where the “battle of the transmission of more than” rather than recovery. This is the birthplace of the UAW. Workers in the battle with the thugs of Henry Ford and won the right to work, fair wages and conditions. Then the UAW has already grown strong and disgraced, but still there is one for the unions. There is no bargaining power for a small and weak and strong against the rich have all the advantages of WHO. That’s another story .

philanthropist Henry Ford, while no benefit in it. DID pay of employees in it and could say he was the father of the middle class. He was the first to pay its workers enough to say that otherwise could afford to buy their products. He pats enough to say that otherwise could afford to buy one of their cars and homes. The basis of the wealth of the Ford family, the good that is the belief of many is the most profitable, cost much more than the current culture of “every man for himself.”

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