Wilcox Mill in Plymouth, Michigan. Photo by Dwight Burdette. Neither looks like they’d have much to do with automotive manufacturing or even the so-called arsenal of democracy, but a pair of building...
Photo by Joe Clark for EPA’s Documerica, via Library of Congress. Springwells was aptly named. Situated along the Rogue River just southwest of Detroit’s city limits, the farming community operated a...
At about the same time GM was experimenting with turbines in its Firebird series, it also took a look at the free-piston engine and developed a working example for its XP-500 concept car. Mac’s Motor...