Various uses of trucks. Trucks used for transportation save substantial haulage cost. Lumbering activities amidst forest. Men cut trees and load them on trucks. Truck transports them on rough roads and drop them in water. Trucks lined outside a bread mill. They move for daily delivery of bread.
A man driving a Model-T Fords also known as Tin Lizzie arrives at a friend's place in United States. He parks the car and is greeted by the friend.
A girl opens the door of a garage and backs out a Model-T Fords also known as Tin Lizzie in United States.
The world struggle for oil is depicted. Photographs of oil drilling boom in the Drake Memorial Museum in the United States. Photographs of early oil refineries. A man near an oil refinery. Dramatization shows transportation of oil barrels. Teamsters driving horse drawn carts loaded with oil barrels over a rugged terrain. Barrels of oil are loaded on barges in spring freshets. Horse drawn carts on a river bank. Frontiersmen rig up 'spring poles'. Early methods of digging oil wells is depicted.
The world struggle for oil is depicted. Relative production in 1876 by different countries is shown. A political map of the United States. A map shows Russia, Germany, Italy and other countries. A + sign in Italy shows the oil production being less than 1 % of the world's production. A dot in Galicia and Roumania depicts oil production being 1 % of the world's production. A box on the map shows Japan with a + sign.
The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in railroads in the United States is depicted. A man rubs two pieces of steel together. Another man stands near him. The first man looks at the pieces of steel through a microscope. The rough edge of polished steel as seen under a microscope. Two pieces of polished steel on the stage of the microscope. Rough edges of the polished steel pieces as seen under the microscope. The man takes out oil from a bottle using a pipette. The oil is applied between the edges of the steel pieces to reduce friction. A view of oil smeared edges as seen through the microscope. A man operates machinery in a railway locomotive.