Ford Automobiles: Trucks and Tractors; Plants; Traffic Scenes / A Visit to the Ford Motor Company: Highland Park Plant / President Wilson Visits Detroit, Michigan / Highland Park Plant Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Policeman directing traffic from raised street platform - sign on platform, ‘Drive Safely-Walk Right’ - Detroit Safety parade - streetcar - flatcar with wrecked car and sign, ‘This is the First of 52 Safety Weeks, RU Careful’ - floats - Pennsylvania RR System, Ford Motor Co, Cadillac [1922] - motorcade on mountain road [1920] - Model T cars and tractors parade on racetrack - steam roller - auto races, racers and stock cars - driver poses with car [1920] - accelerated action of uncontrolled automobile, pedestrian, and streetcar traffic at intersection of city street [1920] - view of road with hairpin curves [1916] - city street - pedestrian, bus, automobile traffic [Detroit, 1929] - heavy automobile traffic [Miller Road, Detroit, 1929] - team and wagon and fire truck combine efforts to pull a truck out of mud [1920] - two men unloading barrel of cider from Model T Touring car [1916] - Model T pick-up truck driven up steep ramp, backed down [1916]. b. Plant interior - Highland Park plant exterior views - Ford tractor pulls six wagons loaded with machine parts. “Five immense crane ways are a part of the Ford system.” Interior of plant. “In the magneto department nimble fingers wind magneto coils.” Women work at long tables - exterior views of plant, buildings, workers, automobiles - ‘Ford’ smokestacks - view of plant, smokestacks - bus, truck traffic - dense crowd outside of Highland Park plant - workers leaving plant. [1916] c. Sign on Highland Park plant, ‘Our Hats Off to the President Who Has Kept Us Out of War’ - crowd flows along street at side of plant - dignitaries in open car - other cars drive by. [1916] d. Views of Highland Park plant exterior along front and side - views from above of plant complex. [1916]
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