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.
The Ford Plant in Detroit. Panorama of Ford Plants. Workers and automobiles outside a Ford Plant. Imperial Mine, Michigamme, Michigan. Ford iron ore mine buildings. Ford coal mines, Nuttallburg and Twin Branch, West Virginia. Kentenia, Pond Creek and Stone, Kentucky. West Virginia, supplies a low volatile smokeless coal. Coal mine and homes. Railroad coal cars drawn by locomotives. Lumber Iron Mountain and Sidnaw, Michigan. Lumbering Operations. Workers and automobile assembly line. Waste metal baled and melted with other metal. By adding this scrap steel greater strength obtained.
Men load scrap into a smelting furnace to prepare raw material for use in a building of Ford cars. POV exterior Ford plant moving down railway to furnaces. Conveyor belt outside plant carrying raw metal. Men moving bucket of molten metal around furnace. Conveyor belt inside Ford plant carries engine blocks. Automatic metal machining lathes in operation. Parts maneuvered around body parts press. Men assemble Ford Model T bodies. Once man uses a hammer to assemble body. Two workers paint Model T body. Workers cut and assemble fabric automobile tops.
Assembly line production of transmission, magneto, starting motor, Bendix drive and the generator inside a Ford motor plant in United States. Motor and transmission assembled. Starting motor and generator placed. Ford Motors numbered.
Ford motors boxed and loaded in railroad cars for shipment. Crate with sign 'Ford Sao Paulo, case No. 19'. Workers on the assembly line. Montage shows Ford service branches and assembly plants around United States.
The final assembly line inside a Ford Motor plant in United States. Engine lowered into a frame. Engine and other parts secured to the frame. The dash unit assembly made on a special rack. Dash on car put. The radiator installed. Chassis inspected. The shields, fenders and running boards positioned and secured to the brackets. Ford Model-T var transferred from the conveyor to starting platform and started through the rear wheels.