Ford Labor Trouble and Sabotage / Ford World War II Activities / Henry Ford Birthday Party Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Ford plant workers gather outside plant - men and women with newspaper in hands - police present at the scene to restore law and order - man talks to a policeman - woman under overpass yells and defies a policeman - policemen place workers in paddy wagon - policemen hold back the crowd - crowd around a sign that reads, ‘Congested Area, Hawking-Selling-Distributing Prohibited’ - man in a plant yard - views of milling crowd in plant yard and on overpass - policemen, heavy traffic, buses, crowd at the plant’s entrance. [1937] b. Test-driving Army jeep - turning jeep over by driving over large rock, driver rolling free, getting back in, resuming test - test-driving tank over rough and steep terrain - 7,000th Ford Liberator bomber hauled out of plant by tractor, ‘The Lucky 7’ inside an upside-down horseshoe painted on side of plane ,December, 1944. Bombers on field - B-24 with ‘5,000th Ford Built Liberator’ painted on fuselage, July, 1944. Henry Ford, Henry Ford II, British and American officers posing with bomber - close-up of engine and propeller of 5,000th bomber - Henry Ford II posing with group beside Ford’s 8,000th Liberator. Ford II signing 8,000th’s fuselage, March, 1945. [1945] c. Children on bicycles, bicycles followed by car, Henry and Mrs. Ford getting out of car, posing with children and others, man directing singing - crowd around car - boy holding cake, presenting it to Henry Ford in car. [1938]

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