A Tour Through the Rouge Plant / Ford Trucks and Cars Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Views of testing laboratory - drafting room, pattern making department - metal testing machinery in operation - laboratory equipment, electric furnaces, microbalance - forging crankshaft using large press - testing and measuring crankshafts - polishing crankshaft - measuring and testing finished crankshaft - view of finished crankshaft - display of small parts - cutaway view of rear end housing and driveshaft, gears turning - weighing and matching pistons, measuring diameter of pistons, trimming off excess - measuring camshaft - metal machining machinery in operation - parts on overhead conveyors, workers assembling motors. [1926] b. Crane filling dump trucks with dirt, trucks dumping loads - semi-truck with log trailer on dirt and paved roads - truck load of rock leaving quarry - truck under hopper in plant yard, being filled, driven onto scale, dumping load in street in front of house - bus, children getting off - panel trucks, deliveries in residential areas - truck delivering load of tile to industrial plant - large number of workers in plant yard - shipping department, crates on conveyors - office, workers sorting orders, using check writing machine, paymaster handing envelopes to workers filing past window - world map showing Ford locations - workers making final inspection of new cars - different models of Ford on display: Victoria Coupe, Deluxe Roadster, Deluxe Coupe, Standard Coupe, Cabriolet, Roadster, Sport Coupe, Tudor Sedan, Deluxe Sedan, Deluxe Phaeton, Station Wagon. “The End.” [1928]
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