Ford contract suppliers

Tudortomnz

Tudortomnz

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Can anyone provide any US & Canadian company names of some of the many contract suppliers to Ford in the old days?
Not just well known ones such as Briggs or Firestone, but companies such as Owens [ glass], Alhegany Ludlum [ rustless/stainless steel] & Eureka Planter, Ontario [ forgings].
Thanks.
 
Ok tell you what, ...you go first!!
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We'll start a list and you can copy them onto your post above as they come to mind and we'll delete our posts below to save bandwidth. This is some that comes to mind at the moment:

Abel
ACME
Ajax
Alemite Manufacturing
Allegheny Steel
American Bosch
August Schubert
Auto Specialty
Autolite
Barcalo Manufacturing
Bassick Manufacturing
B.F. Goodrich
Bridgeport
Briggs
Budd
Champion Electric
Dill
Eaton Axle & Spring
Electro-Lock
Emanuel Aufiero (not sure if this is the same as E.A. Laboratories?)
Essex Wire
Firestone
Flintlock
Gemmer
General Industries
General Motors Truck
Goodyear
Heinz Electric
Houdaille
Kelsey-Hayes
Keystone
Libbey-Owens
McCord
McKaig Hatch
Metropolitan Body
Michigan Steel
Mifflinburg Body
Moore Drop-Forge
Murray
National Acme
Noblitt-Sparks
Northeast Electric
Owens-Dyneto
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Schrader
Sparks Withington
Spicer
Standard Products
Steward Warner
Timken?
Trico
Triplex
United-Carr Fastener
U.S. Rubber
Walker
Waltham
Welker-Hoops
York-Hoover

................to be continued.
 
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this list can go on forever
there are so many that just have a stamp on them with no makers name

ABF inc Detroit
AFS co
Alemite
Duro
Ferro
Fox AP Co
Grand Rapids Metal Craft
HA Douglas Mfg Co, Bronson Mi
Herbrand
National Acme
Oakes
Richardson Batteries
Scoville
all the different radiator emblems
different terminal boxes
 
Just think of how many people that worked at these companies depended on Ford for their jobs..........
 
I have always been interested in Henry's parts suppliers ie, their history, and what parts they made etc etc. Some of them are just as interesting as Ford Co itself.
I know about some, eg, (Albert) Champion makes interesting reading, Zenith was French originally & Houdaille too [Ferrari's used them]. King Seeley gauges, Mr Holley was a friend of old Henry as was Firestone etc etc.
Apart from the tyre companies and other big ones, some of those names in the list I have never heard of eg, Emanuel Aufiero, Welker-Hoops etc etc.
These may be well known in the USA but not overseas.
I am surprised Henry used GM trucks--for instance.
Can anybody add anything to those names?
Thanks
Manuel in Oz
 
I found a Pittsburgh Steel emblem dyed into the metal after stripping the paint from my door, so Pittsburgh Steel.
 
Auto Specialty was one of the makers of the jacks. I drove by the plant near Benton Harbor, Michigan in 1971 or 1972 and the workers were outside picketing. That was the end of that plant. The remnants of the plant still stand and the parking lot has long been overgrown with weeds.
 
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