AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Henry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford’s personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m²) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items: A working fragment of the original Holiday Inn “Great Sign”, A Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 “Allegheny”-class steam locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio and an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, among many others.
The Allegheny Steam Locomotive (1941)
The Presidential Cars are very popular
1914 Ford Model T touring car
Henry Ford began profit sharing in 1914
Henry Ford’s assembly line
Each worker had only one job to speed up the process
1963 Chrysler gas turbine sedan
Kids checking out a life-scale model car
1916 Woods Dual-Power hybrid
1980 Comuta Car
It was introduced when gas prices rose in 1970
2002 Segway human transporter
Electric Cars display
EV charging cord
EVs were first introduced in California
Holiday Inn “Great Sign” (1952)
1997 General Motors EV1
Antique Texaco station
1960 Meskowski race car
1984 March 84C-Cosworth race car
1935 Miller-Ford race car
Travor Bayne’s No. 21 race car
This was the car he drove when he won the 2011 Daytona 500
1987 Ford Thunderbird race car
1965 Lotus-Ford race car
1956 Ford F-100 pickup truck
New energy-efficient lightbulb
2010 Edison2 concept car
Ford airplane
2009 Ford Focus electric
It was featured on the short-lived 10 p.m. “Jay Leno Show”
An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
The Henry Ford Museum is located at 20900 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn, MI 48124. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday. Tickets are $21 for adults (12-61), $19 for seniors (62+), $15.75 for youth (3-11) and free for children aged 2 and under. For more information and discounted tickets, visit https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/henry-ford-museum/