STORY OF FORD COAL AND COKE Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “There are many reasons why Ford coke attains such a high standard of quality. Excellent mines of by-product coal is the first one.” “Stone, Kentucky. Ford mining towns are all noted for their cleanliness.” Children riding tricycles on walk in front of houses - people sitting on porch - view of houses, mountains in background. “Every day the workmen get a lift up steep incline to mine.” Miners climbing aboard small car on tracks for ride up mountain. “A mile into the mountain.” Mine cars moving into mine shaft. “These mines are dug in the mountain’s side. A mining machine under-cuts large faces of coal.” Miner and machine in mine - miner shoveling, operating machine. “A scoop swiftly loads the tipple cars.” “The coal is weighed at a scale house on the way to the tipple.” Cars passing through weighing house on elevated tracks. “The coal is dumped into the tipple where it is separated into 3 grades.” Coal on conveyor. “Ford gondolas are run under the tipple on 3 different tracks -- each receiving a certain size coal.” Gondolas under tipple. “Ford coal on its way to Toledo, Ohio.” “Immense Ford Great Lakes freighters dock to be loaded with coal for the Fordson plant.” View of bridge of ‘Benson Ford’ - chutes being lowered to fill ship. “Cars are automatically placed on car-dump.” Loaded gondola being moved by small engine. “The entire car is picked up and the contents dumped into the hold of the boat.” Gondola moving out on car-dump, being raised and dumped. “In these days the ways are modern and a boat of enormous size is soon loaded and on its way.” Boat being loaded. “Unloading the coal again -- this time at its destination, the Fordson plant.” Large cranes unloading ship - close-ups of cranes, operators riding just above scoops. “Coal, limestone and ore bins.” Piles of materials in bins. “Charging the coke ovens.” Materials moving in car on tracks into plant. “Discharging coke -- the beginning of one of the marvelous sights in this operation.” Plant yard. “Now we begin to understand something about Ford coke -- and a little about its preparation to obtain high quality.” Group of men watching discharging coke oven. “Loading the coke car.” Car being loaded. “The coke is quenched.” Engine pushing coke car into quencher, backing out. “Dumping the coke.” Car dumping coke. “The conveyor galleries -- here the coke is transported to the screening building.” Views of covered conveyors from building to building - coke on conveyor. “Flexibility of operations -- miles of conveyors carry the coke to ship and car.” Views of coke on conveyors. “This conveyor loads the ships.” “Once more the great ships are loaded -- but this time their burden is coke for transportation to various distributors on the Great Lakes.” Ships being loaded by conveyors. “Loading coke into cars for rail shipment.” Coke moving along conveyor into cars - train moving through plant yard. “The Fordson plant is the largest and most complete in the world -- it is no wonder then that Ford products are always true to standard in quality and price.” “The End.” [1926]
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