Industry - Morgan & Wright Plant, Detroit, MI - Later Uniroyal

Morgan-Wright Rubber PlantWhen completed in 1906, this plant, at the foot of Bellevue Avenue at Jefferson (near the Belle Isle bridge) was described as the best equipped rubber goods plant in the world. It was owned by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. of New York, a corporation which owned seventeen plants.


Notes

The site noted placement on a "perfect" waterfront and "tapped by a spur-track of the Detroit Manufactures' railroad.

Photo Info: A drawing of the Morgan & Wright plant along the riverfront in 1906. [DFP-10/7/1;906]


Time Line

1961. This plant became the Uniroyal tire plant. It was torn down in the 1980's.

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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