DEC. 4 ISSUE ANSWERS: “In the spring of 1907, a strike of union men for a closed shop and higher wages was holding up production on Ford’s Model N castings and I phoned the Ford Motor Company and offered to make them all the cylinder castings they needed. Mr. Walter Flander, production superintendent, asked me to come to Detroit and look over some patterns and core boxes for the Model N cylinder. On my arrival, he asked me how soon I could deliver a few sample castings for a test. When I told him I would send him a few in thirty-six, (36), hours, he called Mr. Charles Sorensen and asked him to send all Model N equipment to the Romeo Foundry.” This is a letter written in 1941 by Lyman Holmes, owner of the Holmes Foundry that was located in 1907 on West Lafayette Street in Romeo. Mr. Holmes was able to get the contract to supply The Ford Motor Piquette factory with the production of cylinder jugs in 1907 for the Model N, S and R cars. The two cylinder jug is bolted with a second jug onto the crank case resulting in a four cylinder casting of the engine. Our Romeo foundry only cast the jugs from melted merchant bars that arrived in Romeo by train, placed on horse pulled wagons and delivered to the foundry. The melted iron was poured into oily