Ford Motor Company Employee
Biography: Tony Leszczynski
Biography was collected in 1945 at the 35th Anniversary Banquet
for the Old Timers Club of Ford Motor Company.
Tony Leszczynski was 26 when he began work in the axle assembling department
of the Piquette plant in 1907. Today, at 62, he still is working in the same
department. He went from the Piquette plant to Highland Park in 1929, to
the Rouge as an experimental and test man. He is now an inspector on production
finish in the axle building.
Leszczynski was born in Poland in 1881, and came to Detroit immediately upon
his arrival in America. He worked for two automobile companies a few months
each before beginning his record service with Ford Motor Company.
The Leszczynskis have six children. Leo, Clara and Dorothy are all working
in Detroit war industries; Anthony is attending high school; and two sons,
Sylvester
and Henry, are in the Army.