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The first wagons with bodies completely built by Ford's own Iron Mountain plant, these beauties had it all! Handsome styling, leather seats, sealed-beam headlights, column shift, hydraulic brakes -all for less than a thousand dollars.
No longer just a utility vehicle to haul people and equipment, it had been elevated from Ford's commercial line to the top end of the passenger class.
Sample Page Lorin Sorensen's Famous Ford Woodies Woody 1939 Station Wagon Ford lumber operations Iron Mountain, Michigan Murray Body Corporation, Baker-Raulang Company
And now, with the car bodies being nearly all steel, except for station wagon body panels, there was even less wood being used.
It was not a story of station wagons but of the people who could afford to own them -like the Pallisters who had biggest estate and the highest stone wall" in Little Oxford.
Famous Ford Woodies Lorin Sorensen Iron Mountain Station Wagon Henry Ford
Museum Greenfield Village 1940 Model
state," wrote Wibel, you had no trouble during 1938 with varnish on the station wagon.
As portrayed in her book, the Ford station wagon had become a true American status symbol.
At the time of Wibel's caustic letter to Murray, Ford had completed a huge new Press Steel building at its colossal Rouge Plant in Dearborn where all the company's car bodies would now be made.
Avery, president of Murray Corporation, about the high prices quoted to build the current production of Ford station wagon bodies -and about Murray's continuing labor problems.
He also replied to Avery's complaint about poor quality" of the Ford- made soybean-based varnish provided for use on the 1939 models.
Meanwhile, there were rumblings and rumors down in Dearborn that Murray's longtime relationship with Ford purchasing was beginning to crack.
left the car at the station and saw Bill Niles on the platform.
o wrote the author Faith Baldwin in her popular 1939 romantic novel Station Wagon Set.
A gateman at Henry Ford's historic Greenfield Village in Dearborn admires a brand-new '40 Ford Deluxe Station Wagon.
Murray Corporation of America, other than designing, stamping parts for and building station wagon bodies for Ford, was down to providing front-end sheet metal stampings for the new Mercury, and frames, seat springs, and specialty fender stampings for the commercial.
She laid her scene for the fictional place, Little Oxford, from a composite of the many places she knew Long Island, in Westchester and Connecticut, and in Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Far up in the north woods at the big Ford lumber operations of Iron Mountain, Michigan, manager Walter Nelson was scratching to get more work for his men.
When the job was made (in 1932) by Baker-Raulang Company, of Cleveland, it called for a four hour air dry which they brushed on, and we had no com- plaints whatever from the field.
It was usually caused by the seasonal two to three month summer layoff resulting from the change-over in Dearborn to tool up for the new Ford models.
When you took the job over (in 1933), the station wagons were finished in a different manner and the varnish that we had been furnishing did not work in your different method.
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