TOUR THROUGH THE ROUGE PLANT, A. [PART 1] Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Man speaking through megaphone. “The Motor City, Detroit, Michigan.” Aerial view of Detroit - train moving into industrial section. “150,000 tourists visit the plants each year.” Large group of tourists milling about, buses at curb - buses moving through city street. “The Administration building.” Buses stopping in front of administration building, tourists walking toward building. “We now turn you over to the Ford guide.” Man speaking to crowd in room - tourists boarding bus. “The Rouge plant have an area of 1,096 acres. 14 miles of roadways, 92 miles of railroad tracks, and 1-1/3 miles of docks.” Aerial views of River Rouge plant - trains coming and going in plant yard. “To the right are the steel rolling mill, blooming mill, and open hearth furnace.” People in bus, guide pointing out sights - views of buildings from moving bus. “To the left you see the pressed steel, spring and upset buildings and glass plant.” Views from moving bus of buildings, workers in yard, ladle car, ship at dock. “To the left you are passing the foundry building, and to the right the blast furnaces.” Views from bus. “Everybody out please. Here is the main powerhouse which furnishes 150,000 horse power.” Tourists getting off of bus - view of power plant - tourists gathered at door of power plant. “You are now looking at the enormous turbines used to generate power for the plants’ operations.” “This is the switchboard -- one of the largest in the world.” Workers at huge board. “For converting ore into iron in the blast furnaces, coke is used. Here are the coke ovens.” “More than 3,750 tons of coke are produced daily from coal brought on Ford owned ships from Ford owned mines.” Huge piles of coal - view of plant, conveyor system between buildings - view of top of blast furnaces, hopper for charging them - view from yard of walkway and conveyor system into building - coke oven discharging, car of flaming coke moving under quencher, steam and smoke - looking up at smokestack - car of coke under quencher, car moving away from quencher, car dumping coke - coke going through sorter - coke on conveyor. “During the process of making coke -- tar, gas, ammonia, oils and fertilizer are produced in the by-product plant.” Panoramic view of plants, covered overhead walkway - liquid running over coils. “Tons of fertilizer (ammonium sulphate) are made daily.” Fertilizer dropping into barrow from chute - crane moving fertilizer piled in building - workers filling sacks with fertilizer, sewing them shut. “Here is where coal, limestone and ore are stored.” Bins. “These bins have a capacity of 2,000,000 tons.” Bins, crane moving limestone. “The Ford Motor Company goes right to Mother Earth for its materials in the form of coal and iron from company owned mines.” Mine buildings, loaded gondolas - views inside mine - mining machinery in operation - loaded mine train leaving mine, two men riding - cars at top of tipple dumping coal - coal on conveyor - workers sorting coal in breaker - freight train loaded with coal moving through country, into plant yard. [1926]
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