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Ford Automobile Assembly Line / Ford Automobile Service Garage / Streetcars at Ford Plant / Ford Liberty Engines: Manufacture and Testing / Good Roads / Ford River Rouge Plant / Ford Family at Lincoln Transaction Ceremony (1924)

1924 · Newsreel · 6 min

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Ford Automobile Assembly Line / Ford Automobile Service Garage / Streetcars at Ford Plant / Ford Liberty Engines: Manufacture and Testing / Good Roads / Ford River Rouge Plant / Ford Family at Lincoln Transaction Ceremony Produced: 1924 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Ford automobile assembly line - chassis - workers lower engine into chassis - chassis assembly line - workers attach wheels, engine, radiator, body. b. Ford sales and service garage exterior with mechanic working on automobile, man gets into automobile and drives away. c. Streetcars passing with Ford plant in background - long line of men awaiting streetcars - Ford plant exterior with automobile and pedestrian traffic. d. Plant interior with unassembled engines stacked, American flag hangs from ceiling - workers checking engine heads - two men open wire gate, hoist Liberty engine with tackle and chain onto support, attach propeller, test engine - woman instructs girl in operation of a factory machine - testing Liberty engine, truck drives by with Liberty engine on back. e. Woman leaves farmhouse carrying a child, hand in front of house feeding chickens - women gets into automobile, drives onto highway. f. Ford River Rouge plant exterior - Ford railroad coal cars on sidings - loading a coal hopper with coke. g. Ford automobile parks along curb in front of ‘Lincoln’ Building - passing streetcar - Mr. and Mrs. Leland leave automobile, walk up to…

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