FORD TRUCKS HELP HARNESS THE MISSOURI Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Ford trucks parked in a row - aerial views of Missouri River - map showing Fort Peck Dam site, location of lake shore, four diversion tunnels, spillway, Fort Peck town site - aerial views of river - steel bridge, heavily loaded freight train crossing, car crossing on highway lane - aerial views of river, town, highways, countryside, dam site, trucks at dam site - trucks being filled with dirt by mechanical loader being dumped at dam site - trucks being filled with dirt by steam shovel - close-up of shovel and operator - trucks being loaded by crane shovel - close-up of truck driver - trucks being dumped - trucks being loaded with cement from large mixer, being dumped - spreader in operation - water pouring out of huge barrel into tank - workers shoveling ingredients into cement mixer and adjusting mixer controls - trucks loaded with wooden piles - workers unloading piles and beams from trucks - trailer trucks with long piles loaded on them - truck with water tank and workers at water barrel mounted on scaffolding, filling barrel - water truck is driven down steep dirt road - farmhouse, family and truck outside - construction camp street, pedestrian and truck traffic - pickup truck backs up to door of building, two workers unload large boxes - trucks backing to top of rock pile on planks laid on rock, being dumped - rock crushing and sorting machinery in operation - truck is driven from under rock crusher - various views of trucks, rock crusher, workers - truck loaded with large pipe - trucks loaded with dirt and rock on dirt roads. “The End.” [1938]
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