September 29, 2008 4:00 AM PDT
This was the first factory to build the Model T--Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant, which produced the cars from October 1908 to December 1909. In 1910, production moved to the expansive Highland Park Assembly Plant. The initial price of the Model T: $850.
One of Henry Ford's goals was to create a kind of universal car--not a luxury good, but rather something that everybody could afford. It's a goal that has persisted through automotive history, down through the Volkswagen (translation from the German: "people's car") to the Tata Nano unveiled early this year.
Photo by From the collections of The Henry Ford and Ford Motor
Caption by Jonathan Skillings
