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Aerial view of the Rouge complex in 1927. The Ford River Rouge complex (commonly known as the Rouge complex, River Rouge, or The Rouge) is a Ford Motor Company automobile factory complex located in Dearborn, Michigan, along the River Rouge, upstream from its confluence with the Detroit River at Zug Island.
This steelmaking plant was originally part of the Ford Motor Company, which created an integrated manufacturing complex to produce all major vehicle components at one large facility called The Rouge. In 1989, Ford's steel mill assets were divested and became known as Rouge Industries with the steel operations trading as Rouge Steel Company in ...
Part of the River Rouge Complex. Dearborn Diversified Manufacturing Plant: Dearborn, Michigan: U.S. Axles, suspension parts. Frames for F-Series trucks. Part of the River Rouge Complex. Dearborn Engine: Dearborn, Michigan: U.S. 911 Ford Duratec 20 Ford Duratec 23 Ford Duratec 25: Part of the River Rouge Complex. Previously: Ford FE engine Ford ...
The Henry Ford museum, on its website, has an image of 25,000 workers posing at the Highland Park Plant in 1912. By 1920, Ford employed 5,000 African Americans. By 1926, that number doubled to 10,000.
River Rouge Power Plant: River Rouge: 260: Unit 1 Sumpter Plant: Sumpter: 340: 4x General Electric 7EA simple cycle gas turbines T. B. Simon Power Plant: East Lansing: 100: Switched to natural gas in April 2016 [28] Thetford: Genesee: 222: University of Michigan Central Power Plant: Ann Arbor: 60: Vestaburg: Richland Township: 20: Wyandotte ...
The lower 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of the river south of Michigan Avenue were channelized, widened, and dredged to allow freighter access to Ford's River Rouge Plant inland factory facilities. The plant was built between 1915 and 1927.
The tool and die unit at Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge complex will strike on Sept. 26 if local contract issues are not resolved, the UAW said.
The Battle of the Overpass was an attack by Ford Motor Company against the United Auto Workers (UAW) on May 26, 1937, at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan.The UAW had recently organized workers at Ford's competitors, and planned to hand out leaflets at an overpass leading to the plant's main gate in view of many of the 90,000 employees.