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To drain the cup of bridges to the dregs please find below a photograph, taken in the early 1900s.




7.5x9.5 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of the Packard factory avenue, early 1900s, several different models of Packards parked on avenue, bridge over avenue reads 'Quality First.'

Item # EB01e790

Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.

Given that the car production starts 1897 with some few electric carriages built by Earl C Anthony, how could they just a couple of years later erect such a giant of plant, considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world and open it in 1903? Please don't confound the very first years with later periods. Even when the production in the new plant had been started all Packards were equipped with single-cylinder engines.

Just saw Transformers 3 and noticed that a few of the scenes had Packard Factory Ruins as a background. Or some other ruined Albert Kahn building.

Ross that was the plant.