C. H. Wills & Company
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N 42° 54.489 W 082° 28.298
17T E 379870 N 4751665
Located on the south side of East Huron Boulevard, about 0.1 mile east of Busha Highway. Parking available at the Marysville Museum and park across East Huron Boulevard.
Waymark Code: WMW7X
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 10/23/2006
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C. Harold Wills (1878-1940) began working as a draftsman for Henry Ford in 1902. When the Ford Motor Company was organized in 1903, Wills was its chief engineer and metallurgist. He designed every Ford car until he resigned in 1919. Deciding to manufacture his own car, Wills selected Marysville, a hamlet of two hundred on the banks of the St. Clair River, as the site of C. H. Wills & Company. In 1921 the first overhead-cam, V-8 Wills Sainte Claire was produced. Remembered for its Flying Gray Goose radiator emblem, it utilized strong, lightweight molybdenum steel and was the first car to have back-up lights. Hydraulic brakes, balloon tires and a six-cylinder engine were added before the factory closed in 1926, having produced fourteen thousand cars. The property was purchased by the Chrysler Corporation in 1935.
Historical Date: 10/01/2012
Historical Name: Henry Ford, C. Harold Wills
Description:
This article on the Ford Motor Company website attributes the script Ford logo to C.H. Wills.
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=15321
Parking nearby?: no
D/T ratings: 
website: [Web Link]
Registered Site #: Local Site #1100
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