[FORD ROUGE PLANT, THE] Part 3
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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 Two. Aerial view of Rouge plant - trainloads of molten iron being taken to open hearth - view of furnaces - 52 types of steel used to make cars - 36 for car itself - 16 for tools to build car - large crane on track carries ladle of molten steel - sample taken from furnace - molten steel pouring from furnace into ladle to be formed into ten-ton ingot - mold lifted off ingot - ingot picked up by crane and carried to electric oven where it is heated for rolling - truck pulling trailer loaded with lunches into factory - workers buy lunches - men sitting around eating - workers getting off train, go up stairway - assembly line of motor blocks - views of plant’s farm area used by workers - ingot taken from furnace, placed on rollers, run through rollers and shaped into long, thin sheets of steel - sheets being cut - parts being machined - piston being finished and weighed - pistons come within 1/7th ounce - parts being tested. [1937]
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