[HARVEST OF THE YEARS: FORD ADVERTISEMENT] Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: [part 2] Soy bean processing, workers, machinery - drafting room, design engineers working at drawing boards - workers painting cars - drawings of automobiles on boards - experimental car in weather tunnel - road testing of cars and trucks on brick paving, wet asphalt, cobblestones, rough roads - plant interior, crane placing hot ingot on conveyor - Ford electrical plant - blast furnace - coke oven - glass factory - tire production line, workers - ship at dock - railroad locomotive - Ford plant, various automobile parts superimposed as commentator explains that Ford produces all its own basic materials to keep cost down and quality up - views of Ford plants - electrical plant - freighter being unloaded by huge cranes - gas plant - water works - crane moving iron ore - glass plant interior, ingredients on conveyors, workers, glass polishing table and machinery in operation - tire production line, workers, machinery, tires - coke oven discharging flaming coke - blast furnace - waste recovery, coal tar recovery plant, ammonium sulphate pouring into pile, Benzol tank trucks leaving plant, filling station, attendant filling automobile tank - discharging coke oven - molten iron flowing into ladle cars - foundry, workers, V-8 engine block is lifted by crane - open hearth furnaces in operation - plant yard, railroad train, truck, automobile traffic piles of waste paper, workers placing waste paper, wood, rubber, metal, cloth on conveyors for re-use - ship at dock, close-up of oily water surface, recovery of oil - oil tank truck spreading oil on road - grinding wheel, worker brushes dust into container for metal recovery. [1938]
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