- Visitors to the Ford Centennial also had the chance to hop onto a shuttle bus to other nearby attractions, such as Dearborn, which was also hosting its annual Arab American Festival some three miles away from Ford World Headquarters (Dearborn is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East). Shuttles also took visitors to The Henry Ford (the new overall name for Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village); Fair Lane (Henry and Clara Ford's mansion that was completed around 1914, thanks to money earned from the success of the Model T); or the Edsel & Eleanor Ford mansion in the tony Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit.
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| Shuttle busses were also on hand to transport visitors to many of the surrounding area's attractions, including Ford's 1914 mansion and the Henry Ford Museum. (Photo: Ford Motor Company) |
- There were long lines at a U.S. Post Office trailer for visitors to get their Ford tickets marked with a special stamp.
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| Ford's Dearborn Proving Ground, where visitors were allowed to take vehicles for a spin, is the site of the former Ford Airport where Ford produced the Tri-Motor aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s. (Photo: Joseph Cabadas, Canadian Auto Press) |
- Another attraction was the chance for visitors to pay a fee and take their vehicles for a spin around Ford's Dearborn Proving Ground, which is about a mile south of Ford World Headquarters. The proving ground is the site of the former Ford Airport where Ford had partnered with the Stout Aircraft Company to produce its Tri-Motor aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s. Ford had made several major contributions to early aviation history including creating one of the first concrete runways, plus Henry Ford constructed one of the first airport hotels built nearby, which survives today as the Dearborn Inn. Also on display at the proving ground were three Tri-Motors and a small, one person plane nicknamed the Flivver that Ford initially developed as a kind of "Model T" for the sky.