STRANGE FACTORY
One of the most remarkable mills ever started is a new one built by Mr. Ford for making motor-cars out of beans. It is costing a million pounds, and is realising one of Mr. Ford's dreams of raising the raw materials for the engineering trades out of the land itself. Hundreds of tons of plastic materials are used daily for making moulded parts for motor-cars, and a new material for the purpose .is being prepared from soya beans. Enormous quantities of beans will have to be cultivated to keep the factory going. The mill, which is on the River Rouge, will be the biggest factory In the world using farm products' foj Ita work. ' ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 3
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116STRANGE FACTORY Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 3
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