Name change...Fordson to The Rouge?

[Steve Plucker]

When did Ford change the name of their operation from "Fordson" to "The Rouge"?

Thanks.

Pluck

[pj's junkers]

Sent you a PM may have your info Philip

[Mike V. Florida]

I don't think it was just a name change;

"The first land vehicles actually assembled in the Rouge were not cars but farm tractors. No sooner had Henry Ford achieved low-cost transportation with the Model T than he set his sights on doing the same for the world’s farmers. In 1921 production of the world's first mass-produced tractor, the Fordson, was transferred from the original Dearborn plant to the Rouge."

I read this to mean the Rouge plant was always the Rouge plant. Here is the website the quote above comes from. Tell me what you think.

history-and-timeline/fords-rouge/

[5window]

Perhaps some of the confusion originates from the fact that the first vehicles produced on the site were the WWI Eagle boats, then the post war Fordson tractors. I don't think cars were actually assembled there until 1927?

[jimalabam]

5winow is correct...

[jimalabam]

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Pluck: Name changed in 1926...