Crossposted from Bagley Street.
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The story of Bagley Street and more to come from the Bagley Street Servers....
BAGLEY STREET - Detroit MI (Nov 18, 2008) On the morning of June 4, 1896 in a rented garage in Detroit at 58 Bagley Streeta young entrepreneur, Henry Ford had a serious problem, a crisis, his first gas-powered automobile was idling inside and it was too wide to fit out the doors designed for a horse and buggy. Ford pondered the situation for a few minutes and then grabbed an ax and smashed down a brick wall to get his new prototype "horse-less carriage" or motorcar, which he called a "Quadricycle" out into the public street, Bagley Street. The rest of the story of this inauspicious woodshed turned birthplaceis that of Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor Company and other manufacturers is our history and heritage, and Ford’s vision of transportation, production, industrialization and the affordable, personal car and how it changed the world is our responsibility to respect and maintain.
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