Ford Automobile Assembly Line / Ford Automobile Service Garage / Streetcars at Ford Plant / Ford Liberty Engines: Manufacture and Testing / Good Roads / Ford River Rouge Plant / Ford Family at Lincoln Transaction Ceremony Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Ford automobile assembly line - chassis - workers lower engine into chassis - chassis assembly line - workers attach wheels, engine, radiator, body. [1924] b. Ford sales and service garage exterior with mechanic working on automobile, man gets into automobile and drives away. [1919] c. Streetcars passing with Ford plant in background - long line of men awaiting streetcars - Ford plant exterior with automobile and pedestrian traffic. [1919] d. Plant interior with unassembled engines stacked, American flag hangs from ceiling - workers checking engine heads - two men open wire gate, hoist Liberty engine with tackle and chain onto support, attach propeller, test engine - woman instructs girl in operation of a factory machine - testing Liberty engine, truck drives by with Liberty engine on back. [1918] e. Woman leaves farmhouse carrying a child, hand in front of house feeding chickens - women gets into automobile, drives onto highway. [1919] f. Ford River Rouge plant exterior - Ford railroad coal cars on sidings - loading a coal hopper with coke. [1918] g. Ford automobile parks along curb in front of ‘Lincoln’ Building - passing streetcar - Mr. and Mrs. Leland leave automobile, walk up to building, are greeted by Henry and Mrs. Ford - automobile parking sequence repeated - group stands in front of building, other guests arrive and are welcomed - group poses in front of building, enters building - group in office with Edsel Ford behind desk, guests sign document. [1922]
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