| |
|
Michigan Body Co. – built bodies for the 1914 Keys
automobile made in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Known production automobile bodies in the 1910s.
The year 1900 brought the first automobile to Milford, and not long
afterward, automobile pioneers brought more industry to Milford. In
1924, the General Motors Corporation chose Milford as the site of its
new General Motors Proving Ground. Here the company would test its
vehicles under various conditions. In 1938, Henry Ford came to town in
hopes of harnessing water power from the Huron and Pettibone Creek. The
Ford Carburetor Plant was built, and it supplied welcome employment for
many young people who might otherwise have had to leave Milford looking
for work at the end of the Depression. The Proving Ground remains on the
west side of Milford today, but the Ford plant closed not long after
Henry Ford’s death.
|
