The Henry Ford Digitization Project Hits a Milestone The Henry Ford has announced a milestone in the massive effort to digitize its enormous collection of artifacts. Last week, the museum staff scanned its 100,000th artifact, a photograph of the 100,000th… Read More ›
“Driven to Win: Racing in America” is the title for an exhibition opening in June in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. The 24,000-square-foot display will be housed within the museum’s extensive “Driving America” exhibit area and will “the first… Read More ›
What if AMC had a Mustang-style vehicle before Ford? Henry Ford Museum curator goes for a drive in the 1962 Budd XR-400 concept car Budd Company was a major supplier of sheetmetal stampings to American automakers, producing body parts for… Read More ›
Neither looks like they’d have much to do with automotive manufacturing or even the so-called arsenal of democracy, but a pair of buildings along the Middle River Rouge west of Detroit once played a role in both and may soon… Read More ›
At the height of his fame Henry found it very difficult to travel around in anonymity, his solution was his own railroad car that he hamed “Fairlane” You can see the luxury in which Henry and his family travelled back in… Read More ›
This memo was probably on of the reasons that Henry Ford eventually replaced the Model T, however it cost Kanzler his job and damaged Edsel Ford’s career. The memo in the Henry Ford Museum Archives