The start of the 1931 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931. Opening footage at forefront right shows the Gee Bee model E Sportster flown by Lowell Bayles to a fourth place finish. Forefront center-left is the Great Lakes biplane flown by Joeseph Meehan. A number of various aircraft are parked on the airfield, including an autogyro. Visitors on the airport ramp look at airplanes on display. The museum clock tower and other buildings at Greenfield Village are visible in the background. View looking outward from inside a hanger. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Boeing P-12 pursuit airplanes parked in rows, with propellers all set horizontally. A light high wing monoplane takes off followed, successively, by two Ford trimotor passenger aircraft equipped with wheel pants. View of a biplane landing. A crowd standing in front of a hangar and several officials standing in the grass. People posing on the ramp with airport building in background.
Henry Ford in the Highland Park plant steps into the fifteen millionth Ford Model T car just before it rolls off of the production line on May 26, 1927. Ford's son, Edsel Ford, is driving the car. Next scene shows Ford auto workers during car production on assembly line in factory. Wheels and tires moving on overhead line. View of the twenty millionth Ford automobile, a Model A, as it is completed and rolls off the line in Dearborn, Michigan, driven by Edsel Ford, on April 14, 1931. It is a 1931 slant windshield Town Sedan 160B.
Dearborn, Michigan. The twenty millionth Ford, a 1931 Model A slant windshield Town Sedan 160B, coming off of the final assembly line at the River Rouge Plant. Men in suits observing the event in background. Henry Ford, founder of Ford motor company along with his son Edsel Ford posing with the twenty millionth Ford. Close ups of the number 20000000 on the engine block, then Henry Ford along with Edsel Ford gets in the Model-A and Henry Ford drives away from the assembly line through gate. "Twenty Millionth Ford" painted on side, roof, and on spare tire cover on back.
A Steam shovel breaks ground at River Rouge Plant of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Men watch as the steam shovel breaks ground for a new water tunnel for the power plant. Production plant buildings in the background. Steam rises up from chimneys.
The River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial views of the River Rouge Plant. A pile of new rubber tires. Brazilian workers assemble cars. Wheels with rubber tires move on conveyor belts. A display of several small automobile rubber parts and sheets. A map of Brazil shows Boa Vista and Belem. Pointer shows area of Brazil where Fordlandia rubber plantation is located. Goods being loaded on a freighter at a dockyard. Boxes being lowered into the hold of the freighter.
The Ford auto factory resumes full operation in Dearborn, Michigan. Workers going to the plant. Interiors of the plant. Men work on machines and assemble parts. Cars assembled on a assembly line. Night shift workers going to work.