Scrapping old automobiles at a Ford Plant in the United States. Exterior of the Ford motor plant. Ford railroad car on siding. Trailer truck loaded with four old automobile is driven. A man receives the shipment. Cars are unloaded from the truck and towed into the building. Workers dismantle parts of the automobiles on an assembly line. An early 1920s Studebaker Big Six is among them. Men with torches cut apart parts of the automobiles. Large press crushes the automobile. The wrecked automobile forced into an open hearth-type furnace.
A power plant water tunnel construction for the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Men work inside the tunnel. Men move clay in the tunnel. They operate a hydraulic erector putting blocks of concrete in ceiling. Men push loaded and unloaded hand cars into and out of the tunnel.
Under water tunnel construction. A power plant water tunnel construction for the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Workers talk standing at the entrance of the plant. Cars at the entrance of the plant. Men push loaded and unloaded hand cars into and out of a tunnel. Workers roll concrete blocks on a car into the tunnel. They attach a block to a crane. The crane moves the block into position for an erector to pick it up. The erector picks up the block and swings it into place in the roof of the tunnel.
United States Army Air Corps Keystone LB-5A drop bombs on a concrete bridge over the Pee Dee River in Albemarle, North Carolina. A bomb strikes a concrete bridge. Water splashes due to the bombing. LB-5A bomber aircraft drop bombs. An explosion on the bridge. Smoke rises due to the explosion. A hit on the bridge. The wrecked bridge.
First Pursuit Group tests winter equipment during maneuvers in Oscoda, Michigan. A modified United States Army Air Corps fighter aircraft Curtiss P-1 Hawk stationary on snow. Skis on the aircraft. The aircraft being warmed up prior to a take off. Crew turns the propeller of the aircraft. The propeller turns. A pilot in a cockpit. A row of stationary P-1 Hawks equipped with skis on a flight line. A tower building in the background. Ground personnel turn the aircraft around. Snow blown due to the propeller blast. A P-1 Hawk taxis on the snow field and takes off.
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
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