Ford Motor company plant workers at the factory and plant yard in Highland Park, Michigan during the 1920s. Exterior views of Highland Park factory and mass of many workers entering or leaving facility around a shift change. Workers outside the Ford Plant. View of Plant buildings.
Exterior views of Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Views of plant, buildings, workers, Ford automobiles and other vehicular traffic. 'Ford' smokestacks of the plant.
Exterior views of Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Views of plant, buildings, workers, shift change, Ford automobiles and other vehicular traffic. Dense crowd outside the plant, as 30,000 workers are permitted to take time off to cheer the President, who was visiting the plant that day.. Huge banner on the factory building reads: "Our hats off to the President who has kept us out of war!"
Activity at the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. American workers work inside the factory. Motor blocks and engine parts on assembly line belt. Motor, steering column and transmission-radiator added to automobile chassis. Body of the vehicle fitted over chassis. A number of Ford vehicles drive out of the garage.
View of the Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Testing motors of partly assembled Ford cars. Draftsmen at work inside the plant. View of differential, transmission, crankshaft and various other vehicle body parts.
Subject is the 1926 Ford "National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy," which started at Ford Field, Dearborn, Michigan, on August 7, 1926. Film opens showing a parked biplane with tandem open cockpits. It has an unusual exhaust gathering container atop its engine and an exhaust pipe extending straight down below the fuselage. Camera shows the same aircraft from the rear, with hangar and terminal building in background. Another parked biplane displays the number "19." It is equipped with small interconnected wing flaps on its upper and lower wings. Next is seen a Woodson Model 2-A Biplane with number 14 on its fuselage and another biplane marked Number 11. Closeup of Henry Ford leaning out of a car, talking with a cinematographer, holding a camera, and reporters. A large group of persons involved in the events pose for a photograph. The camera pans across them as they pose in front of a hangar. Scene shifts to spectators crowding around a Ford-Stout 2-AT aircraft as it begins its takeoff roll. Camera follows the airplane as it continues and becomes airborne.
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