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RIVER ROUGE PLANT
Ford Motor Company,
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THE RIVER ROUGE PLANT of the FORD MOTOR COM-
PANY Covers 1,100 acres, employs over 55,000 men,
and is still growing. Two blast furnaces produce 1,000
to 1,200 tons of pig iron daily, and storage bins hold
2,000,000 tons of ore, coal and limestone. Here is
operated the largest foundry in the world, pouring
1,800 tons of castings daily. Coke ovens produce
1,600 tons of coke per day besides more than 500 tons
of by-products, such as benzol, ammonium sulphate,
tar, oil, etc. Paper Mill production, 15 tons daily.
Cement Plant production 1,000 barrels daily. Fifty
miles of railroad tracks are within the plant boun-
daries. The new power plant will have a capacity of
500,000 horsepower. Manufacturing units have a
daily production capacity of 10,000 Model "T"
Motors, 7,000 Ford bodies, 500 Fordson Tractors
and 40,000 square feet of plate glass.
COPYRIGHT, 1925, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
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