View of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory building facade. Wide shot of the same building, also known as the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory. Engineers view drawings while one of them hands over a part from a automobile transmission.
Henry Ford works on historical preservation project. McGuffey readers are seen. Sketch of Ford family farm in Springwells, Michigan. View of homestead at the farm, that Ford restores. He examines the farm's steam engine. The historic Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which Ford purchased to construct a community of historic buildings. View of the restored Botsford Inn,Detroit, Michigan, that Ford bought in 1924.View of Eagle Tavern, in Clinton, Michigan,before,and,after its purchase and restoration by Henry Ford. Concerned about need for additional buildings to house artifacts, Henry Ford consulting with Detroit architect,Robert O. Derrick (with mustache) and two other men. Derrick's plan for the Henry Ford museum is unrolled. It borrows from Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and the old City Hall in Philadelphia.Views of the Clock Tower and museum, as completed in 1929. A pictorial map of the Edison Institute Museum and Historical Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. View of construction begun in 1927. Thomas A. Edison laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, that Ford acquired for Greenfield Village. On a windy September 17, 1928, Thomas A. Edison steps from a car, and pauses before entering the doorway of his restored laboratory, in Greenfield Village. Henry and Mrs.Ford step from their car to quickly join him in the building.Edsel Ford and his wife, also follow. Inside the building, Edison officially open the site by starting a steam engine in the laboratory. Ford and Edison converse (Ford speaking close to Edison's ear, because he is hard of hearing). Later, Edison, in a cornerstone ceremony, imbeds, a shovel contributed by Luther Burbank, and then writes in cement of the cornerstone.Newspapers show coverage of the formal dedication of the museum and Greenfield village, October 21, 1929. Workers rushing the Village toward completion for that event. The Smithcreek Railroad depot is moved to the Village. Workers preparing installation of the depot.
1938 Ford cars driven around the Ford Dearborn Test Track in Dearborn, Michigan. Replica of Independence Hall in the background.
A film about the first commercial aircraft reliability tour for Edsel B. Ford Trophy in Dearborn, Michigan. Animated map depicts the course to be taken by the aircraft undergoing reliability tour. The map locates the 11 cities to be traveled to by the aircraft. A radio aircraft at the Ford Airport in Dearborn. Fireworks burn at the airport.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Two men in an old model Ford car. A sign reads 'Owned by E.H. Bryant'. The car drives past an airplane named 'Ford Maiden Dearborn II'. The car drives through mud on the airfield. Aircraft parked at the airport. A hangar in the background.
Henry Ford attends the National Air Tours at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford with another man in front of a Ford hangar and a Ford Trimotor. In the background is the tail of a single engine Ford 2-AT, #4 from the Ford Air Transport Service "Maiden Dearborn IV". Side view of a Ford tractor in the foreground.
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