Making Fertilizer / Metal Handling Machine

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Making Fertilizer / Metal Handling Machine Produced: 1922

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Endless belt conveyor, man using pick to dislodge material from huge pile so that it will fall into buckets on conveyor - interior of plant - bucket on track is dumped into large vat - materials are dumped through opening seen from below - crane filling tractor-drawn dump trucks - trucks are dumped, workers move materials with wheelbarrows - worker operating scales - workers with shovels and wheelbarrows - scale - ingredients added to those already on scales - dump truck is emptied, worker using shovel - worker watching vat - worker opening door, closing it - rows of trays or vats - worker in front of a furnace - worker checking gauges on machinery - worker with protective covering over nose and mouth - workers moving loaded two-wheeled carts by hand - dump carts over end of ramp - large mixer in operation - machinery in operation - worker displays powder in his hand - worker watches ingredients pouring into funnel - machinery in operation - worker using hoe to move material into spout from huge bin - workers place wheelbarrows on scales, move them away - workers carry full sacks of fertilizer, tops are tied by other workers - workers dump wheel-barrows in front of furnace - worker shovels ingredients into furnace - view into furnace - row of furnaces, door of one open - worker scoops ingredients from bin, pours them through sieve - covered vat - vats - workers with vats. [1922] b. Group watches as worker in cage operates huge crane-like machine, handles hot metal, placing it in press, removing it, turning it, etc. [1922]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7419124

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