Outside the River Rouge

As a neat companion to our post on the Ford GPA launching into the Detroit River from Ford’s River Rouge plant, here’s a couple photos of the plant from the landward side of things, both courtesy The Old Motor. Above, the plant in March 1932, during a hunger march, and below, in 1941. Compare and […]

March Military Campaign – The GPA makes a splash

Last summer, Greg Steinmayer sent us a varied lot of photos that he bought at a Dearborn-area garage sale. Among the photos in that lot – aside from the Maico 500 Sport and the people/monsters of Ford’s factories, were these two shots of the Ford GPA, the so-called Seep, taken right outside Ford’s River Rouge […]