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MAKING UPHOLSTERY CLOTH. PART 3 Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Making Upholstery Coth, Part Three. “The violet ray machine proves whether or not the cloth is fast color. A record is kept of the length of time it takes each piece of cloth to fade.” Cloth samples in frame on machine. “Thus Ford made cloth is a proven quality before being used. In the mammoth cutting and sewing departments. Several layers of cloth are cut at one time.” Hand showing layers of cloth on cutting table. “Cutting the pattern.” Worker using electric knife. “Sewing a cushion.” Man at sewing machine. “Stuffing the cushion with padding.” Workers at long tables. “Making a cushion as all these cushions are made -- with care.” Worker placing padding and cover on springs - tacking cover on. “There are 85 double rubs a minute under 40 pounds pressure.” Wear testing machine in operation. “After 190½ hours of rubbing this is how the cloth looked.” Close-up, cloth showing some wear. “A rough usage test. A few minutes of this test and if the cushion doesn’t fall apart -- we figure it is a good cushion.” Machine pounding cushion. “You have an opportunity now of seeing the quality and workmanship used at all times in Ford Upholstery construction.” Worker upholstering car interior, placing seat cushions. “This product reaches the four corners of the earth.” Assembly line. “Back at Farmer Jones’s everything is going along fine and --” Man opening letter. “With the check received for the wool shipment Farmer Jones goes shopping for the whole family.” Man leaving store - car leaving garage, stopping at gas pump, man with bundles admiring car, getting in. “He is welcomed home with a shout.” Children playing in yard, father driving up in new Ford - family admiring car. “Explaining to his wife how the wool from his sheep is woven into upholstery cloth.” Family, including little girl carrying lamb, getting into car - car on country road. “The End.” [1927]
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