Talk:The Henry Ford

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[edit] The Henry Ford

The official web site - external links - calls itself "The Henry Ford" Which also includes the Greenfield Village. The Museum is separated from the Village, and one can spend a full day going through each one, and then one should plan on a return visit to see what is missed.

Initially I thought it would mean more to add the word museum to the article, but I can understand that leaving it as it is would be appropriate, so I backed off.

An article is needed on the Ford Rouge complex. The Rouge complex consists of a manufacturing plant, a steel slab mill, a Basic Oxygen Furnace, a hot strip mill, a glass plant, and associated administration and engineering buildings. Coke and Iron ore can be delivered directly to the Ford Rouge Plant via Cargo Ships - Great Lakes Ore boats. Henry Ford not only fine tuned the assembly line at this plant, but he also created a complete community of allied industrial facilities to support it.

rob chamberlin 06:43, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This is historically true about the Rouge plant but not current. The steel plant is no longer part of Ford, etc. Rmhermen 01:09, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)


However, The Rouge made Dearborn the Industrial Center of the World for many many years, and I agree the article should be there.

Your are commenting on an old discussion. The article on the River Rouge Plant was begun more than a year ago. Rmhermen 00:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

As a current employee of the Henry Ford, I can say that the name on my check is "the Edison Institute." This is the official name of the complex and should very well be noted as such. The name, The Henry Ford, is an unofficial name promoted by the Institute. Also, I believe that the Museum and the Village should be divided into two separate articles. (unsigned?)

The museum and the village should be one article, its all the Edison Institute. And much more information and photos are needed. Especially a photo the main building. Also a photo of the Dearborn Inn, and the Village. Also, inside photos of exhibits if possible. Thomas Paine1776 22:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
What happened to the end of the title? Fix it, please, it actually offends me horribly that it's wrong and the edit button won't let me fix the article title. It's The Henry Ford Museum. I live there, I worked there, the museum was my second home. I know. I've never heard or seen it truncated like this before. Really it's the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village if you're going to put the two of them together formally. If you say Henry Ford Museum then you only mean the museum. If you don't put Greenfield Village in the title then you need it to make it a separate article; you can make it all one article if you want but the title should reflect it. As to the Edison Institute thing, that's the non-profit organization name. I'd have to research the name, but at a random guess its probably related to the close relationship between Ford and Edison. Ford did a lot to honor Edison and this is just one more way of keeping the name alive (see the Edison handprints in the lobby, some of Edison's inventions in the museum, and Edison's last breath on display).

[edit] Logo/Image

I've added a logo for The Henry Ford to the article. I couldn't get it inside the infobox (I cant get the code formatted properly). I also moved an image "Glimpse of Greenfield Village" down the page a bit. Feel free to make any changes or move things around. - Rjd0060 15:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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