FORD ROUGE PLANT, THE Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: The Ford Rouge Plant. A Film Story of Men, Methods, and Motor Cars, Part One. Panorama of plant with following captions superimposed. “1096 Acres.” “7,250,000 square feet of floor space.” “345 acres of glass windows.” “90 miles of railroad track.” “More than 80,000 men normally employed.” Freighter ‘Henry Ford II’ passing through open drawbridge - views of machinery aboard ship, man at wheel - River Rouge power plant, exterior and interior - docks, electric cranes - unloading ships - coke ovens - blast furnaces - ladle cars - plant interior, casting engine housing - smoothing castings - drill presses drilling holes in engine blocks - Johansson gauge - electric camshaft measuring machine - electric furnace - crankshaft casting - laboratory, workers analyzing metals - heat treating crank- shaft castings - machining, polishing crankshafts. [1937]
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