BOUGHT ENGLISH COTTAGE
HENRY FORD’S PURCHASE NEW YORK, May 12. Henry Ford lias purchased Rose Cottage,- a graywallcd stone house built in Chedworth, England in tiro fourteenth century . and lias transported ,it to American shores. The cottage was dismantled, packed brought here on the steamship London Citizen, officials of the Furncss-Withy Lines said. The cottage, weighing 475 tons, was carted in <»7 waggons to Foss Gross Stataion and carried by a special train to docks at Brentford, England. Officials of the Furncss-Withy Lines said they understood Mr Ford expected to re-erect the cottage at Dearborn, Mich.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 93, 11 July 1930, Page 7
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