Inside National Motor Vehicle Factory of 1900
Having announced that I figured out a way to get into the National Motor Vehicle factory the day before yesterday, before that gets too public, I went back in yesterday for a better look. Instead of 10 minutes, I spent over an hour roaming around. I visited all three floors.
From the outside, one could never know that is made up of three long wings, three stories each. Using all my many years of standing on a soccer field as a reference point, each floor looked to be 50 yards across and 125 yards long. The floors themselves reminded me of the Diamond Chain (from the chapter in "How Indianapolis Built America and How it will Rebuild it with the National Bicycle Greenway") factory, also built by Arthur Newby ten years before, in 1890, that I toured before they closed it down in 2023.
Using my soccer field math, each wing (three floors each) works out to 168,750 square feet. When you count all the three wings there is 506,250 square feet of factory here. This would make it as big as the Diamond Chain factory, once widely known as the one of the biggest in the world, at over 500,000 Square feet.
