# Making Upholstery Cloth: The Ford Industries

Making Upholstery Cloth: The Ford Industries Produced: 1926 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Captions: “From raw materials to finished product’ is a phrase applied to many activities of the Ford Motor Company.” “As with iron, steel, glass, and other materials, so also is it true of the upholstery cloth used in closed Ford cars.” “The story of Ford wool begins in pastoral scenes like this.” “With the Spring comes the shearing and the wool buyer’s opportunity to carefully select his purchase.” “Selecting wool from the sheep’s back.” “Examining the sheared wool.” “Satisfied with the quality the buyer places an order.” “Farmer Jones loads his wool for shipment to Detroit.” “The wool arrives and is sorted.” “The first manufacturing operation -- the machine which opens and dusts the fleece.” “The bath where the wool is thoroughly washed with a solution of scouring liquor.” “It comes from the bath minus grease and dirt and weighing half what it did before.” “Hot air blowers dry the wool and send it along in the continuous manufacturing process.” “It next comes to the burr picker which removes the chaff, shives, dust, burrs, etc.” “This machine picks out a lot of dirt -- just look.” “A truck takes the finished rolls to the cutting department and a small sample goes to the laboratory for test.” “All these are finishing operations. A storage rack aids in steady production.” “How each fleece is prepared for shipment.”…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1926
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-2804)
- 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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