Gasoline railroad tankers in a desert, United States. A gasoline tanker truck parked beside. American soldiers load five gallon gasoline cans onto a military covered truck. (World War II period).
Film begins showing Japanese flag spreading over the Pacific areas of Japanese control. Newspaper headline reads: "Japs Attack Pearl Harbor." Radio news broadcaster states the "While the Battle of the Pacific spreads over a 5 thousand mile front, the United States formally declares war on the Empire of Japan." A woman in her home goes to her radio to listen to the broadcast. A man listens to his car radio. A man and woman listen to the broadcast in their living room. Film transitions to view of the Ford Motor Company Rouge River Plant in Dearborn Michigan. Then, the film begins to show products of the Ford Company as it converted to wartime production for the war. Several jeeps drive out of a yard holding thousands of them. View from camera below as jeeps drive above it. An Army officer and a civilian riding with a driver in a jeep being run through its paces at a Ford proving ground. An M4 tank running through mud. A 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 (Tank Destroyer) Amphibious jeeps entering a body of water, Several seen driving on a dry road and then entering the water. Numerous Army trucks seen parked in an open field. View of an M-10 Tank destroyer running over some trees. A twin engine transport plane takes off towing a Ford-built Waco CG-4 glider behind it. Aerial view from above of several transport planes towing CG-4 gliders at low altitude below. Closeup of a Ford-built supercharger installed in a warplane. Closeup showing its flapper valve moving as a person spins its compressor with his finger. Aircraft engine starting up. Ford-built Electronic antiaircraft director is shown. The remainder of the film shows men and women assembling aircraft engines in a Ford Motor plant.
Documentary titled 'The Ford Age'. Parked 1920s Ford automobiles. The First Ford Plant. Viewed through doorway an early model Ford automobile. Henry Ford drives a quadricycle, early Ford car model.
Before taking a 1906 Ford Model N car for a drive, a man inspects it. He begins by checking the radiator cap and coolant. He then goes to the side of the car and checks the steering wheel and controls associated with it. Next, he starts the car by means of the hand crank. . He pauses to check and clean the left oil lanp., as he climbs behind the wheel, cleaning it as he gets seated. Now ready to drive, he lowers goggles from his hat and leaves the parking spot. The car is seen driving along a rough dirt road until it encounters a log on the roadway. The driver stops to remove it, tossing off to the side of thr road, before proceeding again.
Still photograph shows a woman standing at the porch of a house in Detroit, Michigan. A bicycle parked besides the house.
Various different Ford Model-T cars being driven in the U.S. A Model-T driven on muddy, deeply rutted country road in United States. A Ford Model-T car moves through high grass. Ford Model-T parked beside a stone gate of Tioga Pass in California. The Model-T seen on a quieter city street, with a busier city street in the background. The Ford Model-T drives on a mountain road and passes through a deep cut in mountain with high cliffs on either side.
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