# HENRY FORD SCHOOL,THE \[PART 11-15\]

HENRY FORD SCHOOL,THE \[PART 11-15\] Covers: ca. 1924–ca. 1927 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Students in Ford machine shop. “Safety, sanitation, and the care of equipment are important lessons.” Students at machines sweeping floor, cleaning machines. “Many of the safety precautions adopted by the school were suggested by the Student Safety Council.” Student Council in session. “The boy produces work of commercial value the first day he is in the shop.” Boy at machine. “Eighteen exacting shop departments, thorough to the smallest detail, fitting each student with the kind of skill our country needs.” Shop scenes. “Skilled mechanics at eighteen; non employment has no terrors for these boys.” “Cutting gear teeth on a milling machine.” Demonstration. “With modern machinery, competent instruction, and eagerness to learn the boy develops rapidly.” Shop scenes. “Over half a million dollars’ worth of small tools are salvaged yearly in this department.” Students working in salvage department. “Operating a slotter.” Student working slotter. “Instruction in mathematics and mechanical science makes it easy for the boys to master shop problems.” “Layout work.” Students measure. “Lathe work on a tapered reamer.” Boy working on lathe. “Milling the flutes.” Student milling - close-up of fluted reamer. “After hardening, the reamer is ground to exact size.” Grinding and measuring. “Tapered reamer.” Close-up of finished reamer.…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1924
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-153)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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