Lumber Yard / Country House / A Visit to the Ford Motor Company

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Lumber Yard / Country House / A Visit to the Ford Motor Company Produced: 1919

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Two men pulling nails out of boards resting on sawhorse, placing boards on wagon - third man walks up, watches workers, checks paper, leaves - piles of lumber in back yard. [1919] b. Man walking to house, enters, brings out chair - front view of two story frame house, woman doing laundry by hand and hanging clothes on line - man with crutches sits down on porch, plays with child - man and woman leave house - residential area. [1924] c. Large machine testing automobile springs. “When President Wilson visited Henry Ford 36,000 Ford men gathered around the President’s car in an inspiring scene of welcome and approval.” “The powerhouse. Here is found the largest individual unit of any power plant in the world. Nine engines of a ‘gas-steam’ type designed under Mr. Ford’s direction develop 60,000 horse-power.” View of engine in operation - sign,‘Combination gasteam engine built by the Hoover Owens Rentschliler Co., Hamilton, Ohio for Ford Motor Company, Detroit’ - an engine - interior of power plant, workers, view of second engine - interior of plant, workers using block and tackle - large press cutting metal - small piece crushed by press - worker testing crankshaft, spinning it, milling it, testing it again. [1917]

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7419183

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