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Building for Quality / Henry Ford Farm Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. [part 4] Ball bearings dropping on floor, bouncing, sack stretched on frame in background. “Quality in material and precision in manufacture result in Ford car parts exact in size and exceptional in wearing quality.” Workers on production lines. Captions: “Motor parts, because of their accuracy, seem to fairly click together into completed Ford engines under the hands of the workmen along the assembly line.” “Conveyors bring parts to the final assembly line and cars are completely assembled within a few minutes.” “Five types of Ford passenger cars meet every motoring requirement.” “The Touring Car is a very popular car -- it’s the family open car.” “The Runabout: Used extensively in the business world and popular with the young folks.” “The Coupe: Highly favored as a personal car by both professional and business people.” “The Tudor Sedan: The most popular closed car.” “The Fordor Sedan: Another type of closed car in big demand.” “Your nearest Ford dealer will be glad to tell you many other interesting things about the Ford car or --” “-- will be pleased to present you with a copy of ‘The Ford Industries’ a booklet giving many details of the world’s greatest automobile company.” Booklet open to portrait of Henry Ford - Model T. [1926] b. Henry Ford Farm. [1935]
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