Ford Automobile Assembly Line / Scrapping Old Automobiles at a Ford Plant / President Herbert Hoover Visits Detroit, Michigan / Police Disperse Picketers: Battle of the Overpass / Test Driving Ford Automobiles / Ford Military Armored Trucks Part 2

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Plant interior - engine blocks suspended, from a moving overhead conveyor belt - engine blocks moving down an inclined conveyor belt - engine assembly line with workers - steel furnace and steel pouring into bucket, hoist is positioned, raises bucket - plant interior - automobile wheel rims suspended from moving overhead conveyor - metal working and fender stamping machinery and conveyor belt - worker operates Dow stamping equipment - engine assembly line. [1929] b. Plant exterior with Ford railroad car on siding, truck with trailer driven up with four old automobiles aboard - man receipts shipment - cars are backed off truck, towed into building, stripped of parts - men with torches cut apart the body - large press crushes the frame, wreckages compressed, forced into open hearth furnace. [1930] c. Automobile turns corner in business district - policeman stands at corner, spectators under umbrellas line sidewalk - flag decorated, speaker’s platform - audience in raincoats and hats, with umbrellas - train arrives at station in rain, spectators with umbrellas - President Herbert Hoover leaves passenger car, poses with Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison - the three men conversing indoors while another man prepares an exhibit and experiment - Edison gestures as he points to equipment. [1929] d. Crowd of workers leave streetcars at station, walk up steps - men parade with signs - policemen sit in back of open truck as men parade past - police disperse marchers, 5/26/37. Men running in all directions - police chase men across railroad tracks, through a field. [1937] e. Field with Ford plant in background - automobiles are test driven and circle field at high speed. [1932] f. Three armored trucks drive out of plant. [1918]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects