Ford Eagle Boat
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Interior of plant, Eagle boat under construction, workers attaching siding - crane lifting part of superstructure into place - workers on boat, assembling superstructure - accelerated views of workers attaching side plating - sign on side of boat, ‘The World’s Record for Building and Launching a Boat is Fourteen Days Held by Great Lakes Engineering Company. Target for Ford Eagle Builders Ten Days - Can We Beat It?’ - mass of workers on boat. Shipyard at Rouge. Eagle plant under construction, large steam powered cranes lifting beams of superstructure into place -concrete pouring from mixer down wooden chutes - concrete beams in building - crane lifting steel and beam off pile, workers. [1918]
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