[FORD MOTOR COMPANY WORLD WAR II ACTIVITIES] Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Building, ‘Motor Transport School’ over door - soldiers leaving building, lining up on sidewalk, officer in front, marching to bus, bus moving away, automobile, pedestrian traffic - bus stopping at gate, officer getting out of bus, saluting soldier at gate, getting back into bus, bus moving on - soldiers entering garage, jeep in foreground - classroom, instructor lecturing to soldiers in mechanic’s coats, ‘Army Service School’ on backs - class entering garage examining exhibits, ‘U.S. Army Bomb Service Truck’ ‘U.S. Army Reconnaissance Car’ ‘Engine Assemblies’ - trucks, automobiles, workers, plant in background - views of plants, traffic - plant interior, Brigadier General Charles H. Bonesteel, Jr., Commander of 6th Army Corp Area, Chicago, Illinois, with Edsel Ford, both speaking into microphone - Ford and General Bonesteel in Army reconnaissance car, jeep, Edsel Ford driving - reconnaissance cars on rough field, driving demonstration, over field, through trough of water - group watching demonstration - Army officer and Ford riding on demonstration run - reconnaissance cars being driven out of plant, along road. “The End.” [1941]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects