SOURCE OF THE FORD CAR, THE. PART I Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Henry Ford once said: ‘In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.’” Portrait of Ford. “‘It has always been our belief that a sale does not complete the transaction between us and the buyer --’” “‘-- but establishes a new obligation on us that his car gives him service.’” Close-up of revolving globe - garage with sign, ‘Agencia Ford’ - repeat globe - garage, “Estacion de Servicio, Ford, Besa Fernandez y Co., Ltda.’ - globe repeat - garage - globe again - garage - repeat globe yet again - garage - Henry Ford at machine in shop - 1932 Ford car on turntable - V-8 motor on turntable - sign, ‘Ford Service’ - globe showing ‘Dearborn, U.S.A.’ and ‘Brazil,’ line linking the two - workers chopping down jungle growth, planting seeds, tending young trees - line of workers passing paymaster’s window - globe revolving - coal mine, worker walking along railroad track, views inside mine, miners riding loaded mine cars from mine - railroad train moving into plant yard - coke oven discharging burning coke - worker with sacks of ‘Ford Ammonium Sulphate Fertilizer’ - two loggers cutting down tree - caterpillar tractors with front runners hauling sleds loaded with logs on snow - logs on conveyor into sawmill - logs being sawed into boards - mine car with iron ore going up steep incline to top of building - freighter ‘Benson Ford’ at dock, under way - globe showing United States - aerial views of Ford Motor Company Rouge plant - various plant location - plant interior, worker at machine, grinding part, measuring it, display of small parts - plant from park-like area - close-up of part in lathe being machined - display of tools for boring - panorama of Ford Motor Company plant - drafting room, workers at drawing boards - machine shop, workers at machines - Ford Airport, aircraft plant - Ford Tri-Motor on field, group in front of building - Tri-Motor taking off - passengers in cabin of plane - aerial views of River Rouge plant - plant yard, sightseeing buses, railroad freight train - huge cranes unloading and loading ship - water and bow from deck of ship under way - foundry interior, ladles moved by cranes, worker at controls, molten metal pouring into ladle, moving ladle - molten glass pouring into roller, glass rolling machinery, glass leaving roller, workers with sheets of safety glass - whirling vat - workers operating testing machinery, driveshaft, springs - press stamping and shaping body parts, workers - machines in operation - press in operation - overhead crane moving hot ingot, ingot in rolling machinery - laboratory, workers using microbalance - measuring and testing crankshafts - view of hallway and glassed-in laboratory in plant - worker measuring cams on camshaft. “Part Two will follow immediately.” [1932]
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