Henry Ford's Rubber Plantation
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Henry Ford's Rubber Plantation
Don't think I have ever seen this topic discussed on the Forum. Science channel has a series called "Mysteries of the Abandoned" and they had a segment on the plantation and "city" Henry built in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. He was going to grow his own rubber to cut out the middle man in the product. City housed about 2000 people, didn't work out so now it sits abandoned. He named his "rubber" town Fordlandia.
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Re: Henry Ford's Rubber Plantation
Hey David, yes its a very interesting part of Ford history, and it has been discussed here before, just google "MTFCA Fordlandia" and all the previous topics come up !
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Leo van Stirum, Netherlands
'23 Huckster, '66 CJ5 daily driver
Leo van Stirum, Netherlands
'23 Huckster, '66 CJ5 daily driver
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Re: Henry Ford's Rubber Plantation
In the MTFCI magazine a young man wrote a nice essay about it.