RARE, Vtg. Ford Employee Badge & 4 Brass Tool Check (Tag) Matching Numbers

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RARE, Vtg.
Ford Rouge Factory Motor Company Employee Badge & 4 Brass Check Tool Tags
No. F 4886.
Vtg. Stainless Steel Ford Employee Badge and 4 matching brass tool check (or tag) #F4886 from the Rouge Plant.
Each employee of the plant was issued a numbered badge and if that employee needed to check a tool out of the tool crib he had to turn in one of several tool checks also issued to him.
A matching set of badge and check is very unusual - the individual badges and individual checks are much more common, but this is your chance to own a matched set.
Employee badge is from the 1930s, stainless steel & the incredible detail embossed design of the Ford Tri-motor airplane, the Ford ore boats
and various manufacturing plants.
The badge: 1" X 1.25"
Tool check: 1-3/8'" H X 1-1/4"W
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A Timeline of the Rouge Plant:
1915
Henry Ford purchases 2,000 acres of marshland along the Rouge River in Dearborn
1917
Construction of Rouge Plant begins
1918
First products of the Rouge are Eagle Boats for the US Navy
1921
Fordson tractor production begins at Rouge Plant
1924
First public tours of the Rouge Plant
1925
Walter P. Chrysler reorganizes Maxwell Motor Corp. into Chrysler Corp.
1926
Ford adopts 40 hour work week
1927
Model T production ends after more than 15 million are produced
1927
Ford loses first place in sales to Chevrolet
1927
Model A production begins at Rouge
1928
Tractor production discontinued at the Rouge
1928
Ford regains first place in sales
1929
Total Rouge employment climbs to 103,000
1932
First V-8 Ford car produced at Rouge
1937
Union organizers stage massive “sit-in” strikes at General Motors’ plants in Flint
1937
Ford Service men attack union organizers in what becomes known as The Battle of the Overpass
1941
Ford signs contract with United Auto Workers, the last major auto company to do so
1942
World War II halts civilian car production
1943-45
War production at the Rouge contributes to Detroit’s reputation as “The Arsenal of Democracy”
1945
Ford civilian truck and auto production resumes
1946
75,000 employed at the Rouge
1949
Ford introduces the first all-new cars built at the Rouge since World War II
1953
60,000 employed at the Rouge
1953
The first Ford Thunderbird rolls off the line at the Rouge
1965
Ford Mustang begins production at the Rouge
1965
New yearly record for Rouge Plant Tours set with 239,669 visitors
1971
All-time yearly record for Rouge Plant tours set with 243,175 visitors
1980
Rouge Plant tours end
1997
UAW and Ford Motor Company sign Rouge Viability Agreement to revitalize the Rouge
1999
Six workers are killed in an explosion at the Rouge Power House
2004
New F-150 truck production begins at the Rouge in a newly constructed, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility
2004
Ford Rouge Factory Tours resume