NOV. 27 ISSUE ANSWERS: The Detroit Auto Vehicle Company was in Detroit. Since The Hosner/Holmes Foundry had been casting iron parts for the many carriage factories in Romeo during the last part of the ninetieth century, the Romeo workers were getting very skillful turning iron bars arriving by train and melting them into sand cast forms. Local citizens encouraged the owners of the Detroit Auto Vehicle Company to invest in a factory in Romeo in 1905. Their company was building a car in Detroit and needed another facility to help with the production. The factory was constructed with local labor and investment, using local farmer’s fieldstone. Machinery was moved into the factory, but in about 18 months they pulled out of Romeo. Soon after the Rumsey rag mill took over the building and produced a cloth product that industry needed. Part of the original building burned in the 1950’s. A newer part has been added to the west. Some of the old stone work is still visible on the east side of the building located on East Lafayette Street in Romeo. R. Beringer, Romeo Historical Society Curator