Produced by the Ford Piquette Plant, one of the best automotive museums around, this video explores the earliest years of the Detroit auto industry.
This excellent video, narrated by docent Don LaCombe of the Ford Piquette Plant, addresses a key question about the American auto industry: How did Detroit become the Motor City? This might be the clearest and most authoritative explanation we’ve seen yet.
Of course, the early history of the auto industry is in no small part the history of the Ford Motor Company. In the Model T’s greatest years, Ford outsold the rest of the automakers combined. As the birthplace of the Model T, the Ford Piquette Plant played a critical role in the car’s creation and development, and here the video focuses on the key personnel Henry Ford gathered at the facility, from C. Harold Wills to Walter Flanders to James Couzens. Together they put America on wheels. Enjoy the video.
Thanks M.C.G. for that great video! You are providing a great service to us all.
Don, just received the video from a friend and he was surprised Don LaCombe narrated, just so happens we share the same name. Would be interested if we could be related, not sure if you can reply here I do have an extensive LaCombe genealogy. Don LaCombe