BIG AND BASIC. PART I Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Logan Miller sitting behind desk explaining the Basic Products Group of Ford Motor Company - chart showing Vice-President, L.C. Miller; Steel Division, General Manager, J.K. Sutherland; Dearborn General Manufacturing Division, General Manager, J.C. Thrasher; Manufacturing Services Division, General Manager, K.D. Cassidy - each of the three General Managers posing in his office - panorama of River Rouge plant - views of processes and areas: welding, powerhouse, foundry, offices, laundry, locomotive cab, ship’s wheelhouse, drafting room, traffic in plant yard, painting equipment - ore ship - Sutherland discussing Steel Division - freighter ‘Benson Ford’ under way - discussion of function of and pictures of different departments contributing to steel production - huge cranes unloading ore ship - discharging coke oven - quencher - blast furnace , exterior and interior, tapping, filling ladle cars, mud gun stopping hole - railroad operation in River Rouge yard - open hearth furnaces, huge machine charging furnace, sample taking - quality control laboratory, testing metal sample. [1952]
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