Road Building Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Convoy of heavy trucks, crane loading large bucket onto truck, truck moving on, another taking its place, crane removing large bucket from truck, lifting to hopper of large concrete mixer-spreader - workers in boots spreading concrete in road bed, machine leveler moving along behind - close-up of man, trucks in background - heavily loaded trailer trucks moving along dirt road - truck under stationary concrete mixer, water tower in foreground, crane filling hopper of mixer, truck driven under water tower, worker on platform under water tower - another truck moving from mixer to water tower - workers laying concrete road bed, crane dumping concrete into mixer-spreader, heavy trailer trucks coming and going along dirt road, workers using hand tools to distribute concrete, leveler moving along behind - dump trucks being filled with dirt by crane - close-up of truck bed - loaded truck being driven over rough ground - crane filling truck with dirt, truck driven away - truck stuck near crane, is rocked out of run, driven away over rough ground, team of horses, truck dumping load - dump trucks on very rough road - dumping, trucks driven down pile of sand - crane moving sand. Road Building near Adrian. Photo by Mr. Bacon. Crane filling hopper of large concrete mixer, train of large buckets on flatcars under mixer - train pushed by small locomotive moving along tracks - long train of full buckets - construction shacks, equipment. [1931]
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