FORD ROUGE PLANT Part 6
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: The Ford Rouge Plant. A Film Story of Men, Methods and Motor Cars, Parts One and Two. Aerial view of plant - the following facts superimposed over pictures of plant and workers: ‘1096 acres,’ ‘7,250,000 square feet of floor space,’ ‘345 acres of glass windows,’ ‘90 miles of railroad track,’ ‘more than 80,000 men normally employed’ - freighter ‘Henry Ford II’ passing under drawbridge, view of pilot at wheel, engineer, engines - aerial view of plant, smokestacks - interior of power plant, generators, central control board - huge cranes, operators in control cages above scoops, unloading iron ore from ship - coke ovens discharging flaming coke, clouds of steam from quencher - top of blast furnace cable cars climbing to top - molten iron flowing from bottom of blast furnace - aerial view of River Rouge, line moving to foundry - foundry interior, workers, mold being filled with sand - mold being removed from casting of V-8 engine block - views of mold production lines, workers - view of mold being assembled, molten metal pouring into mold, castings being removed from molds - workers removing rough edges from castings - engine castings on conveyors - multiple drilling machine in operation - blocks on conveyor moving through measuring device - worker measuring automobile parts - milling machine in operation - shafts on overhead conveyor - electric camshaft tester in operation - crankshaft production, electric furnace - test pouring from furnace - laboratory, worker taking steel filings form test pouring, weighing them on micro balance, testing them chemically - worker watching molten steel pouring into mold - hot molds moving along conveyor - mold being removed from crankshafts - crankshafts being placed in furnace for heat treatment - crankshafts on conveyor, being machined and polished. Aerial view of River Rouge plant, line moving to open hearth furnaces where different types of steel are made - railroad locomotive - open hearth furnace - huge crane on tracks placing scrap steel into furnace - close-up of burning charge in furnace overhead crane carrying bucket - molten metal pouring into mold - worker taking testing sample from furnace, pouring it into small mold - close-up of worker with protective helmet over head - molten metal pouring from furnace into ingot molds - worker stirring contents of molds - overhead crane lifting mold from cooled ingot, moving ingot to oven called soaking pit - truck-drawn train of lunch wagons entering plant - workers selecting food, eating - worker alighting from streetcar, climbing stairs to overhead walkway - production line, shift change - automobile, truck traffic - workers and families in garden area - crane removing hot ingot from soaking pit, placing it on conveyor to rolling mill - operator’s hands on machinery controls - ingot tipping into rolling machinery, being rolled and shaped, moved from one machine to another until long thin sheet of metal emerges - worker examining sheet of metal as it goes by him - rolling machinery in operation - aerial view of River Rouge plant, line moving to motor building center - piston polishing machinery in operation - piston finishing, weighing, workers - pistons on overhead conveyor - workers assembling sets for motors - assembly line. [1937]
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