I’m retired out of East Detroit, Eastpointe, Fire Department. The chemical truck was not to fight chemical fires, but a way to pressurize the tanks without a pump. You flipped the levers on the back of the tank, and soda and acid would mix and pressurize the yanks like the old extinguishers you flipped up side down in school years ago. I use to drive the truck when we had it at the station for parades.

In their defense: Using that museum as a venue probably helps to pay the bills and gives the plant exposure it normally wouldn't get. Of course, the museum could be closed on "venue usage" days. :)

It was so nice to see the display of Model T tool kit that came with each auto. My Dad born in 1906 still had the pliers embossed with “Ford” from the first Model T his mother bought back in 1915. Fortunately I still have those pliers. I should display them along with an old photo I have of his whole family motoring along in Memphis Tn. ps - His mother was born in 1867. She didn’t have my Dad until 1906 and he didn’t have me until 1946. It’s kind of unique perhaps that I’m still kicking at age 77+ yet personally knew a women born shortly after the Civil War. His Mom died in 1962.

When I was in Dillon, Montana in August, 2011 there was a 1909 Model T fire truck on display on a street corner. I don't know the history of the truck or who owns it but I spent about an hour studying it, In 1909 they were still making Indian Head pennies as it was a transition year for the penny and first year for the Lincoln head cent, too. It really made me think of the history of the year 1909 on my walk back to my hotel room that night. I was in Dillon for 2 weeks and would take walks around town after I was done for the day. For some reason my walks would bring me back to that "T" fire truck! It was sure a memorable trip!

What a great museum! No modern high tech displays to ruin the wonderful period mood.

The fact that this facility exists is amazing. It is does not exist from Federal, State, or Corporate dollars, it supported by those who love US automotive history, and the love of US manufacturing and innovation. Been there several times and glad to see it has progressed quite a bit since my first visit. This facility could have very easily gone to the wrecking ball. BTW, architect, historic Detroit firm of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls.

Fantastic display of mechanical history. As someone who worked with a lot of corporate meetings, I was taken aback by the comments about the event being set up. Unless you paid $5-10K to be in there for a few hours, you did little to really contribute to the cost of running a place like this. Those events are the only reason the place stays open. Families visiting the museum will never pay the amount needed to cover what is most likely thousands of dollars per day needed just to open the doors.

Wow, that was awesome! Thanks so much for taking me with you to the museum.

Note that Henry's office and the other offices are all reproductions; they are not original. I use to work as a volunteer there. Also, The Room on the third floor is just a best guess and nothing is original (remember Studebaker used the building for years building their own cars there). I built the first version of the room with another volunteer based on a historical investigators report on what they envisioned it looked like based upon nail holes in the floor where they thought the old walls should be. But one of the walls was diagonal to the rest. I remember thinking when I was building the walls that no one would ever build the walls like this; it just did not look right. I see they have corrected that error and rearranged the walls into a more believable set up.

I like seeing the facility used for stuff like that as I suspect the meetings and functions help to fund the museum.

Those big walk in safes were common during that time. Had one in a building of similar age where I worked long ago. Thanks for the tour.

Here is how my father (born in 1932) referred to the early Fords..Model A....Model T ...Modern A...very elegant way to define the two Model A's

How cool it would have been to work there in that era? I was born at least 50-60 years late. Love old stuff, detest most technology. Do have a reference because my grams farm was early 1900’s in the ‘50-‘60’s right down to the constantly fired cook stove. Retired the “ice box” when electricity was run in late ‘50’s. Great place, gorgeous south central PA setting.

I wanted to chime in. I saw the snowmobile in the video and I know exactly where that was invented as I don't live too far from there, the building that was Whites in NH is still there today.

Charles K. Hyde's book about the Dodge Brothers would be a good read. They supplied all the running gear for Ford from 1903 to 1913. Bodies were built by Ford and tires came from Harvey Firestone.

This video needs to be shown at schools mandatory,.THis is awesome well put loved it the kids must learn this this is very valuable knowledge

A good video on the Piquette plant. I visited the museum during a R66 road trip I did in 2018 and was impressed with the way it as put together. Our tour guide was as old as the Model A (haha) and what he didn't know about Henry wasn't worth knowing. One thing you mssed out was the change of the Ford logo from Ford with wings (can easily be seen stamped into the old radiators) and the Ford blue oval we know today. I am a proud owner of a 1966 Ford Mustang and support Henry today. He was surely an amazing guy. Cheers Ian - New Zealand

What's most impressive is how many cars were built in such a small factory given that you also need to fit the factory equipment, people,materials, and everything else.

@6:48 the ford/zelda logo😂🍻

I always wanted one of those Model T Snowmobiles, I bet it's impossible to find one that they don't want a fortune for today.

Why not hold functions in museums? I know of several aviation museums that held functions. In Ottawa we combined a big band with swing dancers at certain functions. It was a fun trip down to a past era.

The Time Clock is what started IBM. It was built in the town across the river from me. Beautiful Tour

Those two survivor cars were awesome, my Pa, God bless him, was born in 1923, he would have been 100 years old last August... Those were truly the cars of his childhood! Good job on the video!

Those must be some really strong floors in that old building. Awesome video.

Very nice video thanks for posting this! However I would like to mention that fine handcraftsmanship ,coach building ,painting, hand pinstriping, upholstering, metal work, machine work, wood work are not lost arts as evidence by the restoration of antique vehicles

I think the voice over was the correct decision, good audio is just as important as the video. The information can be delivered much better than if done at the time of the video,too much distractions,even for the person behind the camera as that person is in a thought of his or her own of what they are seeing yet while trying to tell a story. Well done on you're part,much appreciate you sharing the content!

Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica. We have the oldest Ford dealer outside of the US, Kingston Industrial Garage, established in 1908 and is still a Ford dealer. My dad who will be 85 this April as always own a Ford and his latest been 2020 model Ford F150 Ecoboost.

On the picture wall of the executives of Ford you see the Dodge brothers who were involved with the beginning of Ford and actually made enough money to start their own auto company.

Great video, i agree that the events in such proximity to the displays is a little distracting but also understand the money required to keep this original building must be alot but maybe a compromise like have special areas for events or not placing the events right ontop of the cars. I like all the heavy fire doors that are throughout the plant and how they where self closing with gravity in the event of a fire. I retired from what use to be callec TRW manufacturing where we made some of the manual steering gears and components for cars in this period of time and before i retired TRW had made a display area where they used the ceiling pulleys and leather belts to run alot of the manufacting equipment at the turn of the last. Century. Great video and i think ill take the family on a trip to see this museum.

Well done. Thanks for the tour. Your narration is professional and informative.

At 5:50 time stamp was a model of the first engine Henry Ford built from bits and pieces. Probably more important that the model of the car.

This my idea of holy ground! Nice video and well done. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Amazing tour. I came here to watch because it's closed on Mondays, so I wasn't able to tour it the day I was in Detroit. It sure looked neat from the outside. So many of Detroit's historic buildings have faded away. What a treat to see this one preserved. It's such a neat city, I really want to return and look around!

Awesome video. I love this type of exhibition. The craftsmanship is second to none.

There is a channel called Strong's Garage that has Model "T" racers from the period when there were guys who ran them, I would venture it was in the 30's or 40's.

Visited there a few years ago. It's a fantastic museum and well worth making an effort to get there. You certainly don't have to be any sort of a car person (I'm certainly not) to enjoy all the museum has to offer.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful tour.

all the Models before 1910 were Right Hand drives? Wow, good video.

That was so interesting. I saw a model T sedan in a motorcycle dealership of all places and couldn't believe how solidly they were built.

I remember when that building was part of the linen company nextdoor.. yellow covered window building across the street is a old GM plant

Hand lettering is soo awesome.

A fantastic video sir which I am enjoying thoroughly. Been a Ford guy with work trucks for a while. I grew up going to six flags (Atlanta) and there was a Chevy show of which I only remember part of a song involved. Something about baseball hot dogs apple pie and Chevrolet. It was only later in life when I had a friend from Switzerland that pointed out that this was not even an american word, which honestly cracked me up after a little thought. I like to metal detect for history and have certainly found many ford parts over the years and love the journey into the past. Your journey here is fascinating and thank you for sharing my friend.

The voice over was the best option, not the second best, thank you.

Thanks for the tour. I was there several years ago when they were just starting to get all that going again and start remodeling and it has come a long ways because it was really rough when I first went so it’s looking much much nicer but even aside from that just the history alone was amazing, I don’t remember the guy that gave me the tour but he would’ve taught all day long and he just had so much knowledge of what happened

The overhead lineshaft idea was taken from Edison's shops. Thanks for a video without clickbait or useless fluff.

The safe is for payroll.Workers were paid in cash back in the day. (I lived and worked in a studio in Montreal that used to be the telegraph office. We kept our photo equipment in the large walk in vault with a similar door. It was easy to get the combination changed. Inside was a smaller standing safe.) My great grandfather worked for Ford. No details. A trained blacksmith he probably did something like that. This museum would be a good next day visit after the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. I was born less than a mile away in the Henry Ford Hospital, and spent a lot of time in Detroit. And directly following the example of Ford and the Model T, I drive a Model Y. When I was young, I couldn't wait to get as far from Detroit and its moribund auto business (less moribund than I thought) and now as a Tesla investor, I'm back in the family business.

I am glad you did the voice over. Your narration was excellent.

Great information and video! From the last clip you shared, background noise was definitely manageable! Plus the wood floor creaking and people chatting kind of added to the Time Machine effect the video has! Just my 2 cents! Great job

If you worried about the soft sound from today, just imagine the sound when the plant was producing at the maximum back in the day.

Fantastic video and I enjoyed it very much! Also, I thought the voice over worked quite well. Had you not explained why you did it I wouldn't have thought twice about it. I wholeheartedly agree with your stance on having events in the main "galleries" of the museum during operating hours. However, if it means extra revenue for them so they can keep the doors open then I would have to grudgingly accept it.

Solid tour. Thank you.

Great video. The wood sided car with the 2 bench seats was the beginning of the "Station Wagon". And yes it was used to take passengers to and from the train station.

Nice job on the trim on hole in the wall to Ford's office. I think they used a chainsaw.

Many (probably most) museums have a VERY difficult time having sufficient funds to maintain a building, maintain the collection, acquire items for the collection, pay any hired staff, pay utilities, and on and on. Making the facility available for events - for a fee - provides some extremely important income.

Thank you for showing. Of note is that up to the model T, the vehicles had the driver on the right side of the vehicle.

Museums do whatever they can to make money. Weddings are one of the regular sources for funding, but also corporate shindigs, proms and such. can you blame them? the Piquette Ford factory is a particularly unpopular destination because of its location in an M5 industrial zone; but for extra-utilitarian functions it would not survive. Also, no would rent a purpose-built building next to the plant! Part of the draw is being in such an historic location, surrounded by cars -- some of which were actually assembled in the venue!

Thank you for the great video. As true car guy from Australia, I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and the Ford museum.

We have a very similar building in Louisville that was once about the same time as this one a Ford Factory. It has recently been turned into student housing for the U of L students. Not many people even the locals know what it was.

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing this awesome video. God bless 🙏

What a great video. Very informative, entertaining and educational especially for automotive enthusiasts like myself. I'm now more inclined to and intrigued to visit the museum myself.

Sir you are the greatest! I'd seen this video and went ok , I just watched it and it was fabulous!!!

I TOTALLY agree with your opinion of the 'events' they have there all the time.....been there 4 times in the past 10 years, and either certain areas were closed because of it, or whole floors! I 💘💘love the place for the ambience, the smell of the ancient oil soaked wood, and it transports me back in time....I can hear the sounds of the cars being built, and the various cars on display adds to that. White chairs, tables and fans blowing don't cut it!! Thanks for the tour though (A loyal subscriber)

Thank you so much for this video very well done and I’d like to see this museum what time

Wow that model k looks just like a heap that's buried in my grandparents' back shed. They always said don't touch it! It's been there since I can remember and I'm 46 so..oh man I'm old.

Just a really great video . I truly enjoyed it . 😊

Great information! Interesting that a Dodge and Studebaker were both inside the Ford museum. Thanks, John

I noticed the right hand drive cars up to the model T. I do wish they could have just standardised the left and right thing way back then as it would have made life so much better.

Maybe you’d like to replace the revenue that the venue generates, which will surely be based in part upon the ambiance of the museum. In my home town, one of the mansions that was owned by the family that backed Clessie Cummins is now a B&B that uses the 110 yr old formal gardens for weddings & other events.Toxic puke in the flower beds isn’t _my_ first choice, but _I_ can’t afford to preserve that iconically historic property.

Thank you for sending me on a vacation I don't think I'll get a chance to ever get

Thanks for the tour. I ahve driven by that plant several times while at work & have never made it inside.

Being a diehard Ford fan I think it's great that you could have a venue in a Ford facility

I have my Uncle's Dyke's Automotive and Gas Engine Encyclopedia from 1926 that shows the overhead belt and pulley system used in the factory to power the lathe and such. It also covers all makes and cars of that era as well as the trucks and farm machinery and even has a section devoted to the Model T and all the variant bodies you could buy or have built, including info for making your own mechanics shop including shop trucks for different cars including Ford, Cadillac and Studebaker. - I build model cars, so I am planning on using the book to create scale replicas of the equipment used to build those cars and such. The book is quite valuable for information. If you find one online, try and buy it. It will help your knowledge on these vintage cars and get an understanding for the world of mechanics that surrounded them.

I Was SURPRISED At How Many Vehicles Were On Display In The Old Building And Utilizing Every Floor Of It. Using It For Meetings And Weddings Must Bring In Some Appreciated Extra Income, And The Caretakers Must Know What They're Doing. The Old Story About Using LOWER GRADE Quality Boards Or Crate Lumber In Ford Cars Is Certainly A Concocted Myth, After Seeing The Wooden Framework Exhibited On That One Skeleton Car Body On Display. NO Car Manufacturer Would Be STUPID ENOUGH To Sell A NEW VEHICLE With 2nd Hand And Lower Quality Materials In It's Construction. THAT, Would Be An Instant Business SUICIDE Move Once The Word Got Out... VERY GOOD Tour Ken. Five Stars For Your Film. However It's Widely Stated That The Model-T Came Out In 1908. But Like They Are Still Doing Today, Coming Out In The LATER Part Of The Year, But Perhaps Considered As THE NEXT YEARS CARS...

They have to keep the doors opens!! Cut em a little slack, but like you did mention, surely there a room where they could do their"EVENTS"!

New subscriber. Wonderful video. Loved that history. I'm a car nut and look forward to more.

great stuff and history thank you

This is a very nice video. However, a chemical fire truck gets its name because a chemical reaction in an onboard tank causes the pressure needed to shoot the water. The truck may or may not be trying to extinguish a chemical fire.

Ford had the right idea of including tools with the cars. BMW included tools with their cars up until very recently.

Excellent video Ken, i really enjoyed it and learned from it. I was wondering what material did they use for that back window with the six oval openings? Glass or was vinyl used. I’m not sure plastic was invented at that time. Thanks

It is important for some of these museums have to use space as venue rental. They can charge enough for one evening of rental that matches the amount taken in during a month of visitors payments. They use these funds to keep the doors open.

Great walk around, thank you, but I guess the museum couldn't be bothered to finish the cutout for Ford's office. Just push an info desk in front of it and call it good!

Great video, wise choice on doing a voiceover.

Those events make the dollar’s that keep the museum open and if not for those events we would have nothing

Great informative video and I would hope GM would do similar to their older plants that are currently just falling apart and not being preserved for the history they certainly contain.

The Model K sure looks great! - You can see the progression of design in the previous models leading up to the Model T. Interesting that the fenders on the previous models, with exception to the K, do not have any inner curtains and the bodies sit right on the frame without any covering to stop mud from flying up. The 1915 Dodge would have been post Brass era as WWI pretty much ended the use of brass on cars. Auto manufacturers used nickel and eventually chrome. Initially, Nickel was plated onto brass, but eventually was plated on steel along with chrome plating on steel. You also don't see brass on the Studebaker beside it. The car @15:00 might not be a Depot Hack as they had wood bodies right up to the firewall. It could be an Omnibus conversion car as the passengers are seated facing one another and the front steel portion looks like a standard Ford Coupe or roadster body. Prior to the 1929 Ford Woodie Wagon, Ford never made an "In House" "Woodie". Those were sent out to other coach builders and built to suit the customer. Over time, these wagons became so popular that Ford wanted to have them built in house to capitalize on that market. Those Model T race cars look great. The orange one was probably made that way to look like a Marmon or Stutz. Thank you for showing us the museum. Being in Canada, I probably wouldn't get a chance to travel down there in person.

Awesome video thank you ❤

You gotta do what you’ve gotta do to keep the doors open I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Great tour. 👌🏻 Thanks for sharing.

The all terrain truck has the wrong tires. The original tires were scooped to match the inside of the tracks to allow for better traction

that Model T snowmobile? same one you see every year being driven by the postman/narrator in the Christmas special “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” 😎

My dad was born in 1900. He bought a model A Ford. I'm watching to see one.

When this place was abandoned in the 90's they would have some of the biggest illegal Rave parties there...Piquette Meat market was also a big Rave spot back then. ....good old days!

I always pictures the traditional assembly line but just done more simply, not each floor assembling a stage of the cars then taking an elevator down or up whatever the case was lol still this is cool, all that brass man.....we tend to look at these old cars as relics but even if they were meant for affordability and mass consumption there was clearly some art that went into it

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And so while one enhances the background noise. The other, reduces and circumvents that noise. So you get the processing you want on your voice. And the background noise is magically automatically, eliminated. In whole or in part.. Sometimes we leave a little in the background. So that it is no longer predominant. And appears at a reduced level background noise. Which can actually be very beneficial to the final production. Because sometimes when there is no noise. That does not sound natural. And so you need a little natural ambience background that will not be obtrusive. And has been done for Hollywood movie tracks. Since their inventions. Over 50 years ago. And I've used it on every, Vocal part. Every drum. Every guitar. Every keyboard. Every synthesizer. Used virtually on everything. To keep the background noise down and in check. These were hardware devices when they were first created. They had to be plugged in. To an electrical wall outlet. And with audio cables in and out of it. But today can be done in your free software. What once cost us thousands. 50 years ago. It is now free. In most free audio software packages you can download for free. It's a whole new world for the consumer. I had a rack of, 8 of those that cost over $100 each. Though the rack could accommodate 16. I couldn't afford 16. Because I also needed just as many limiters and/or compressors. Not including my audio console and all of the other accoutrements necessary. Lots of wires lots of hours lots of solder lots of mindnumbing wiring. For days on end. Now just a selection in your software. For free. Available with numerous presets you can choose. That sound best to you. And so I have been doing this kind of audio. Both in the studio and on location. For over 50 years. And one must discover and learn. How to deal with said background noises on location. Because you're going to have to. Especially if you would need lip-synch on camera. With a lot of background noise. The background noise may never be able to be completely eliminated. But it can be highly reduced to only being a background element. Not the foreground noise over the spoken word. We can't be having that. That's why these gizmos were invented and emulated later in software. So for all compression and limiting of the dynamic range, desired/required. It needs to be followed by a similar, inverse. But set at a different volume level threshold or trigger level. So to counteract what you are actually doing. Whose bulk of volume level has now been shifted. So as to Engineer Out. What we don't want to be hearing. And to enhance and bring out, bring forward, bring forth and enhanced. For what we do want. Using equalization and dynamic range compression and/or limiting. And that's that Hollywood Sound you heard in the movies. Since you were born. I mean I think they started using it with the Wizard of OZ? Or maybe it was Disney's, Fantasia? It was one of those. 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To the background noise. And can be limited and/or clipped off. Clipped off is just fine. It does not reduce dynamic range.. In any appreciable way. And it makes the sound much tighter. It eliminates the tubby sounding room acoustics. It reads you of background noise, instantly. And the release time of which. Can be adjusted. To track that speaker's voice. So it is virtually instantaneous. Eliminating the background noise. This same technique was done. With a separate hardware gizmo. Actually intended. As an analog tape recorder, noise reduction device. It was re-adapted and repurposed. As a multi-band limiter and downward expanders. By the Dolby company. Called the 361 A analog tape noise reduction unit. When they created a separate option. Called the Hollywood Vocal Processor CAT-22 Controller. And it plugged into the front of the Dolby gizmo. And used on all Hollywood Blockbuster Films. Starting in the early 1970s. I think with Star Wars? When we got Dolby T HX Sound. Those were highly used in that manner. For said films. As a lot was also shot outdoors. Where there is plenty of wind, equipment and background noise. Which was all dealt with. With that Dolby gizmo. Repurposed. To do the same thing as I've described here. In a broadband single channel configuration. Dolby did by splitting it up into 4 separate bands. Providing for greater enhancement and greater background noise control. But that was a fairly expensive gizmo. Costing a total of approximately, $2500. Or was it $4000? I forget? Because you had to purchase the Dolby noise reduction unit. Then you had to purchase the option separately. I also have that. And that was used on folks like, Tom Brokaw. For NBC-TV's Nightly News. On his microphone. And they wouldn't do a show without it. If he goes on location. The gizmo travels with them. To wherever he was in the world. And is still done today with Lester Holt. That's why it sounds different than what you can get. They are using a touch of Hollywood production and processing. All in real-time, live. And today can be done with, real-time enabled software. And your laptop from a few years ago. (More Hollywood in following post)

Good job, earned a sub. Very interesting.

This makes me want to visit Detroit. Fascinating. When did steering wheels move to the left side of the car, and why?

I like voice over as there is always better explanations. You did very well.

That was cool, thank you.

A living museum should celebrate life including weddings, Henry would be thrilled 🎉

Bravo, well done.