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Railway motor at Ford Museum exhibit

1929

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Railway motor at Ford Museum exhibit
  • Title
  • Railway motor at Ford Museum exhibit
  • Creator
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  • Date
  • 1929
  • Identifier
  • 20170320-hpichswp-0073
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP424_B002_F006_I01
  • Description
  • A man examines a railway motor at an exhibit created for the Ford Museum. The contents of the exhibit, amounting to 600 items, were donated to Henry Ford's museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Caption on back reads: "Highest voltage railway motor ever built. Used on the Grass Lake Line in Michigan. Two motors used in series across 7500 V."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
    Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
    Electric motors.
  • Source
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs, 1886-1996, MSP 424, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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