The Highland Park plant of the Ford Motor Company, 1922

The Ford automobile plant in Highland Park near Detroit, Michigan, was designed in 1908 by Albert Kahn in in 1913 became the world’s first car factory to use production lines. A Model T car could now be produced in only 93 minutes, as opposed to previously 728 minutes, which led to a steady fall in prices. Car production at the plant already ceased in the 1920s, when production was shifted to tractors and vehicle components. Today, a part of the complex is taken up by the Ford company archives or used as storage space, while others have gone to ruin.

A view of the Highland Park plant of the Ford Motor Company in 1922, black-and-white-photography, 1922, unknown photographer; source: Bernard L. Johnson, "Henry Ford and His Power Farm", Farm Mechanics 102 (February 1922), digital copy: HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015080122974?urlappend=%3Bseq=816%3Bownerid=13510798900839899-998, public domain.