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Show Progress Story Told Of Giant Plant Rouge, so named because it is located on the River Rouge in Detroit, De-troit, is the world-famous main production plant of the Ford Motor Company. It is famous for other reasons than its huge size and great production pro-duction achievements. It also has the largest steam electric power station serving any industrial establishment, es-tablishment, anywhere. When the Rouge Power station was built back in 1920, it began setting new records immediately by installing boilers capable of producing 200,000 lbs. of steam per hour, the largest boilers ever built up to that time, and firing them with pulverized coal then considered con-sidered a revolutionary method. Yet only five years later Rouge began rebuilding four of its eight boilers to take advantage of water wa-ter "cooled furnaces and other new developments which resulted in more than doubling their capacity. |