Ford Airplanes and Ford Airport / President Wilson and Peace Celebrations / Testing Military Tanks / President Wilson In Parade Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Aircraft plant interior - working on fuselages - mounting motors - plane in hangar being worked on - Ford airplane on runway at Ford Airport - plane takes off, flies, lands, takes off - Henry Ford with others on field - crowd - Ford greets pilots - plane takes off - Air Transportation Service truck drives away from building, into airport, up to plane - plane takes off - small plane ,Ford Flivver, is carried by group of men, placed on ground, takes off from racetrack course, gives stunt flying exhibition - aerial view of Ford plant. [1926] b. Dense crowds waving flags, signs - troops march - cars and people with signs, one reading, ‘The Devil Says He Will Resign if the Kaiser is Admitted’ - President Wilson waves from car moving slowly through wildly enthusiastic crowd. [1918] c. Tanks ,Ford Model 1918, 3-ton M1918, lined up with drivers standing beside them - tanks test driven over rough, hilly field, through mud, over ditches - tanks stuck in trench - observers look at it - workers dig enough of bank away for tank to drive out - tank falls into another trench, pulls itself out - tanks knock down barbed wire fence - Henry Ford watches. [1918] d. President and Mrs. Wilson enter flag and bunting draped automobile - Wilson waves top hat to crowd. [1916]
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