Henry Ford with Model A No. 1 / Assembling and Test Driving the Ford Model A / A Tour of the Ford River Rouge Plant Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Henry Ford with ‘Model A, No. 1’ ,10/20/27. Ford and guest stamp ‘1’ into engine block - Ford poses and converses with officials. [1927] b. Ford workers on assembly line assembling Model A - finished car is driven out of plant, inspected - exterior views of plant, workers, motorcade of Ford automobile and trucks - road testing automobile on rough terrain, automobile turns over. [1929] c. Aerial view of Detroit - Chamber’s sightseeing bus loaded with passengers driving pass Lincoln Mercury building - tourists enter bus - Ford plant exterior with workers - tourists inside bus - industrial crane in plant yard - ‘Benson Ford’ ore boat at dock, other vessels - bus is driven along street in plant area - tourists leave bus - industrial buildings - smokestack - tourists enter River Rouge plant with guide - loading railroad car with coke - powerhouse, coke oven - fertilizer plant with workers and machinery bagging ‘Ford Ammonium Sulfate Fertilizer’ - freight train - railroad coal cars in plant yard - power shove - steel mill, exterior and interior - cement plant - men load bagged cement onto trucks - metal working machinery inside a plant - blast furnace - buckets of molten metal. [1930]
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