In February 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened a West Coast assembly plant in Seattle to build Model T vehicles. A decade later, from March 3rd to 8th, 1924, the company held a daily open house with tours to show the public how Ford cars and trucks were built. This newspaper insert for the open house explains what visitors will see and gives statistics from the previous year on the number of employees working at the plant, the number of cars and trucks built daily, the amount of materials purchased from local businesses, the amount of electricity used, the number of cars and trucks delivered, and other matters.
The Ford Assembly Plant building, located at the intersection of Fairview Avenue North and Valley Street, still stands and in 2019 is owned by Public Storage, a self-storage chain.
Caption information source: PCAD (Pacific Coast Architecture Database) ID No. 4902. Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times: March 2, 1924, p. 41.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
