I have a Ford and as I’ve said before, though the years (ok….40’s, 50’s and 60’s) they produced some of the more interesting cars with some of the most powerful engines. Of those engines the Cleveland and the Windsor were major players.
I’m not alone thinking that the only real difference between the two were the names each being made in the plant they were named after. The Windsor was named after the Essex Engine plant in Windsor, Ontario and the Cleveland Engine Plant in Ohio.
1914 Photo of the Essex Engine plant in Windsor, Ontario
Cleveland Casting Plant where the Cleveland engines started.
Totally different plants and countries about the only they had in common was displacement.
What were the differences? That’s coming up.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
That’s an interesting post. It was worth visiting your blog. Hope to visit again.
Daniel Schmitt & Co.
An amazing article, thanks for the writing.
I was living in Cincinnati when that taxi driver threw his lit cigarette into the Cuyahoga river and started a fire that raged for several hours. Seems the Cleveland Engine Plant was dumping machine oil used from boring cylinder walls and crankshaft turning into the river, and the oil soaked into some wood debris and the river’s surface actually burned.
Ford feared that there V8 Crown Jewel plant would be forced to close when the Clan Water Act was passed by congress, but they cleaned up there processes and now seem to be a ‘responsible’ corporate factory in Cleveland.
In fact, the whole city of Cleveland seems cleaner today.
A friend of mine just emailed me one of your articles from a while back. I read that one a few more. Really enjoy your blog. Thanks