River Rouge Trivia

5window

5window

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Just for fun.

In 1929, there were two stacks for the blast furnaces. What were their names?

What is Fordensite? What was it used for on your Model A?

No prizes except pride. I'll post the answers in a day or two. Merry,Merry.
 
5window,

I don't know the answer for the smoke stack names.

However, off the top of my head, Fordensite was Fords answer to Bakelite. It was made from sawdust, and phenolic acid and placed into molds under high pressure and heat. Used for Distributor Caps, terminal boxes and the like.

Darryl in Fairbanks
 
5window said:
Just for fun.

In 1929, there were two stacks for the blast furnaces. What were their names?

I will let someone else answer that one.

What is Fordensite? What was it used for on your Model A?

It is also refered to as Bakelite, black in color and hard as a rock...so hard that it can only be machined when diamonds are used as cutting tools: Gear Shift Lever Ball; Distrubutor Body, Cap, and Rotor; and other insulating parts. (February 1, 1929 Ford News)

No prizes except pride. I'll post the answers in a day or two. Merry,Merry.
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Merry Christmas!

Pluck
 
Don't know the stack names, other than "Fred & Ethel", but I think Fordsenite was a material Henry was experimenting with in 1946/'47 to be possibly used making body panels. He claimed it was lighter than metal, and stronger.
 
The two blast furnace stacks at the Rouge were known as the''Henry Ford 11 & the Benson Ford''.

Merry Xmas from DownUnder in NZ.
 
Tudortomnz said:
True ; we obviously have the same old book, ''Ford Industries [ 1929]'' or the reprint thereof ''Matchless Model A'', Post 1961.
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Those are great books to browse thru and grasp the concept of how "deep" Ford's business really was! It is/was mind-boggling to really think about.
 
Steve Plucker said:
It is also refered to as Bakelite, black in color and hard as a rock...so hard that it can only be machined when diamonds are used as cutting tools: Gear Shift Lever Ball; Distrubutor Body, Cap, and Rotor; and other insulating parts. (February 1, 1929 Ford News)
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There's no way this hardness claim is true.
 
The only reference I have found to Fordensite was a mention that it was a plastic-like substance used from 1937-1941 to make distributor caps and coils - "they were manufactured in black or brown Fordensite". It is mentioned on page 6 of the Northern Virginia Regional Group's early V8 club newsletter.
 
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lookin-backtexas said:
The only reference I have found to Fordensite was a mention that it was a plastic-like substance used from 1937-1941 to make distributor caps and coils - "they were manufactured in black or brown Fordensite". It is mentioned on page 6 of the Northern Virginia Regional Group's early V8 club newsletter.
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You can read all about it in the February 1, 1929 issue of Ford News.

It is to bad that one of the National clubs can not put all the 1928-1931 issues on CD's...a wealth of information in those issues.

Pluck
 
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