[LAYING THE "BIG INCH" PIPE LINE] Part 4
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Welder joining two pipes on line, trucks holding tanks and hoses in foreground - workers - tractors with booms holding sections of pipe in place above the ground - equipment attached to pipeline revolves around perimeter of pipe - view of cleared strip and pipeline laying operation up the side of a mountain - tractor carrying section of pipe climbs up a grade - power driven earth scoop fills in trench containing pipeline - trench-digging machinery, buckets on a revolving wheel, in operation - loaded truck climbs dirt road up a mountain slope - coupe drives along pipeline, followed by tractor - tractor moves sections of pipe into place, lowers them into trench - machinery dumps earth into trench covering pipeline - tractor trailer carrying three long sections of pipe - trucks loaded with barrels - pipe section unloaded mechanically from tractor trailer, lowered into trench by tractor boom - welders attach sections - tractor with blade clearing underbrush - clearing out stumps - tractor holds pipe section in place - welders attaching sections of pipe - overhead view of dirt road, equipment and trucks - trench-digging machinery in operation - truck with fuel drums - tractor stacks sections of pipe - automobile and truck on dirt road - power shovel pulls tractor - machinery wrapping covering around pipeline. [1944]
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