Ford engineer visits Capital Region facility

R.R. Brown, the engineer who built plants for the Ford Motor Co. in Ireland, Brazil and Argentina, made a hurried trip to the Capital Region to visit the Green Island facility under construction. “The plans for the new plant are not quite complete,” Brown said, “but Albert Kahn, the architect, expects to have them in readiness for the bidders within three weeks.” He also said the initial plant would be a one-story structure 1,100 feet or more long and 120 feet wide, running below the power house in a northeasterly direction generally following the line of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad tracks. The Green Island plant was to manufacture ball and roller bearings to supply all Ford plants except those of the Lincoln Motor Co. —Times Union, May 10, 1922