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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
Steam Tractor Uprooting Stumps / Building For Quality Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Steam Tractor Uprooting Stumps [1935] b. [part 1] Panoramic view of building complex of Highland Park plant. “Years ago, Henry Ford said: ‘The car of the future will be light as well as low priced. This means substitution of quality for quantity, even to the use of materials not yet discovered.’” Henry Ford walking down path in front of Fair Lane. “How well he prophesied! Ford cars embodying all these things, are today the most popular cars in the world.” Close-up of Model T. “Ford quality has its inception in this great engineering laboratory where experiment and research go on unceasingly.” “They are produced in great manufacturing plants which are the marvels of the industrial world.” “The Highland Park plant, covering 307 acres, is one vast machine shop and show place which attracts visitors from all over the world.” Highland Park plant. “The Fordson plant with an area of 1,100 acres, is devoted to large scale manufacture and conversion of raw materials into finished products.” [1926]
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