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Piquette Avenue: sometimes, leaving the past behind leads you right back to where you started.

Publication: Automotive Design & Production
Publication Date: 01-NOV-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Despite being born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn, and living in Metro Detroit my entire life, 1 had never been to the Ford Piquette Avenue plant where Model T production began just over 100 years ago. A sturdy brick building, it is much as it was in those days, thanks as much to preservation efforts as to a combination of the city's inability to demolish old, unused structures and the uniquely American trait of abandoning that which is old and out-of-date and building new. The walls of this structure have seen the promise of a new industry, the birth of the moving assembly line (implemented at the much larger Highland Park plant in 1913), two world wars, post-war prosperity, riots whose effects still concuss...



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