Wills' Way; New museum paints legacy of industry sleeper.(chief architect of Model T, C. Harold Wills)(Brief Article)

By 1919 Ford Motor Co. had sold nearly 3.5 million Model Ts. That year one of the Model T's chief architects, C. Harold Wills, walked away from Ford with $1.5 million severance pay and an eye for greener pastures. Model Ts were profitable, but boring. For Wills, green sat 50 miles northeast of Detroit in Marysville, Michigan.

There, he established the C.H. Wills Co., a luxury car venture meant to reflect passion of design rather than cater to the brute functionality of the age. By 1921, the once-desolate hamlet on the St. Clair River was sufficiently populated to support a ...

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