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Visitors in buses tour the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants

View inside a busload of persons touring the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants. A Ford tour guide is standing at the front of the bus describing things to the visitors. Cars and trucks driving back and forth in the factory yard, next to a building with freight cars parked on an adjacent railroad siding. Another view of guide and visitors inside the bus. They pass a large building with a long conveyor in front of it, and men on a scaffold working on upper windows. Views alternate between inside the bus and views of plant buildings. Four very tall smoke stacks are seen extending from the ground in front of one building. A traveling crane is seen in motion where raw materials are stored at the waterfront. A large bulk carrier ship is docked in a canal. A compact plant with 8 closely positioned smoke stacks is seen in the background. Another large ore carrier ship is being unloaded by a crane. Glimpse inside the bus. View from the bus of two more buses, ahead, as they drive near rail lines between buildings. Another glimpse inside the bus. View upward to cranes and conveyors overhead. View from bus as it follows two ahead of it. At end, visitors exit the bus in an open area

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078276
Persons touring the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant visit its Power station

Views of the Electric Power generating station at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Closeup of the eight smoke stacks atop the power station. A group of persons on a tour of the River Rouge plants is seen standing outside the entrance to the power station as a Ford Company guide speaks to them. Next, they all enter the power station. View of the electric generators inside the power station. The visitors walk past the generators on the turbine floor of the power plant. (View gives perspective of the huge size of the generators in contrast to the persons walking past them.) Scene shifts to the control room of the power station, where technicians are seen monitoring a huge set of instruments.

Date: 1928
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078277
Visitors observe Coking operations at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant

Production of coke for steel making and production of ammonium phosphate fertilizer as a byproduct at Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Visitors stand in a group near coking ovens. View of huge pile of coal and the eight smoke stacks of the company power plant in background. Closeup of traveling device for collecting coke as it is expelled from coking ovens. View of it moving along rail as it collects hot coke being expelled from ovens. View of the collector moving toward the camera and into a quencher, where water flows to cool the coke. Smoke and steam issuing from smoke stack above the quencher. The smoking coke container moving back along its rail to a dumping location where the contents are discharged into an area filled with coke. Next, a man is seen opening a screen gate to allow coke to flow to a conveyor. View from ground of closed conveyor that transports coke material to an adjacent by-products plant, for making of tar, gas, ammonia, oils, and fertilizer. Water running over sets of baffles. Change of scene to part of the plant that transforms byproducts of the coking process into Ammonium phosphate fertilizer. The fertilizer falling through large pipes into carts. Huge mounds of the fertilizer and a drag bucket filling and rising above the heaps. Men loading fertilizer into cloth bags labeled "Ford Ammonium Phosphate Fertilizer." View of storage yard containing piles of coal, limestone, ammonium phosphate, and ore. Traveling crane moving above the piles, and raising a bucket full of ammonium phosphate.

Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078278
Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in ‌Kentucky.

Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078279
A Ford Motor Company iron ore mine. And various operations at the Rouge plant in Michigan.

View of a Ford Motor Company iron ore mine during winter. Snow covers the ground. Closeup of a ore car running up the Tiple. View from up on the Tiple as a iron ore car reaches reaches the top. Scene shifts to a bulk carrier freighter docked at pier. High above are a line of railroad open hopper cars. the next scene shows a large bulk carrier ship steaming away. Scene shifts to the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where huge cranes and clamshell buckets are raising iron ore raw material into the plant. Closeup of an operator inside a compartment low in the crane, controlling the bucket. Another view of the cranes at work. A huge pile of iron ore at the River Rouge Plant. A dragline bucket being moved through an ore pile. Iron ore in a container moving along a conveyor. Hot Molten slag being poured into a special crucible on rails, beneath a steel furnace. A long line (a train) of slag-filled crucibles. Slag being dumped from a crucible onto the slag heap for use in road building and making cement. A steam shovel being used to load slag into a large railroad car. Men with shovels cleaning up areas of the plant. Tractors pulling wagons in the yard. More piles of raw materials for making cement are seen next to factory and railroad tracks where 2,000 barrels of cement are made daily.

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078280
Loading trucks at the Ford Motor Company Cement Plant in the River Rouge complex

Two African American men working at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge cement plant. One loads bags of cement onto a flat bed truck with two trailers, while the other monitors the bags as the come down a chute. Another, smaller truck, behind the trailer truck, is also being loaded. After the loading is finished, A man retrieves a chock from behind the left rear wheel of the last trailer, while the the truck slowly pulls away.

Date: 1928
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078281