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The Highland Park Ford Plant is a former factory located at 91 Manchester Avenue (at Woodward Avenue) in Highland Park, Michigan. The second production facility for the Model T automobile, it became a National Historic Landmark in 1978.〔 == History == The Highland Park Ford Plant was a production plant for Ford Motor Company in the city of Highland Park, Michigan, which is surrounded by Detroit. The Highland Park Ford Plant was designed by Albert Kahn Associates in 1908 and was opened in 1910. Ford automotive production had previously taken place at the facility known as the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. The complex included offices, factories, a power plant and a foundry. Over 120 acres in size the Highland Park Plant was the largest manufacturing facility in the world at the time of its opening. Because of its spacious design, it set the precedent for many factories and production plants built thereafter. On 7 October 1913, the Highland Park Ford Plant became the first automobile production facility in the world to implement the moving assembly line.〔(Woodward Avenue Action Association - Preserve Ford Highland Park )〕 The new assembly line improved production time of the Model T from 728 to 93 minutes. The Highland Parks assembly line lowered the price of the Model T from $700 in 1910 to $350 in 1917 making it an affordable automobile for most Americans. Ford offered nearly three times the wages paid at other unskilled manufacturing plants.〔http://www.woodwardavenue.org/uploaded_pics/pdf/pdf-20110128102909.pdf〕 In the late 1920s Ford moved automobile assembly to the River Rouge Plant complex in nearby Dearborn. Automotive trim manufacturing and tractor assembly continued at the Highland Park plant. As of 2011, it had been used by Ford Motor Company to store documents and for artifact storage for the Henry Ford Museum. A portion is also occupied by a Forman Mills clothing warehouse that opened in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Highland Park Ford Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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