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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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My Grand father worked for Henry Ford I in the Rouge from 1916 to 1959 as a Specialty Mould Maker. One of the tasks that he was given was to make the Moulds used to restore Henry's collection in the Ford Museum.
Henry loved to collect things mechanical, his collection of obsolete 19TH century farm machinery is probably second to none. One of the things that he especially liked to collect were steam engines. The museum has one dating from about 1715, which was used in England to pump water out of coal mines. Then there is one of the two Turbines that produced power for the Rouge, it is two stories high and about 100 feet long.
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