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Transportation of the refined gasoline from supply to the final consumer, United States.
Transportation methods of gasoline in United States. Animation shows the shipping of the gasoline from storage to the refined products. Carrying the refined gasoline in ships. The refined gasoline is taken in tank cars to the main distributing stations. A man takes out the gasoline from tank cars at the distributing stations and load in the tank trucks. The tank trucks then supply the gasoline to various large consumers and filling stations. At a gasoline station, while making a delivery of gasoline, a man connects a wire to the steel rod in the truck to serve as a ground and prevent any fire. Gas station attendant fills a man's car with gasoline.
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visiting Kentucky and Illinois
Delegates of the Pan American Highway Commission visit the United States. Group gathered around the famous Man O' War race horse (then retired) in Kentucky. Close views of Man O' War outside a stable. Visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield. Delegates with a wreath are gathered at the base of Lincoln's tomb. The Commission views a 2 mile section of roadway called Bates Road which was built as an experiment, ultimately to be destroyed. Views of the dusty Bates Road and vehicles traveling slowly over its rutted roadway.
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission on tour north of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Delegates from the Pan American Highway Commission travel northward in Minnesota, United States during a visit to various states. A bridge over the Upper Mississippi River near St. Paul is visible with a small sign identifying the waterway as the Mississippi River. The bridge has multiple metal trusses atop stone pilings. People greet the Commission delegates in a small town. View of Minnesota Governor J.A.O. Preus enjoying a drink with commission delegates and towns people near a town gazebo. The town may be Garrison, Isle, Malmo Township, Vineland, Wahkon, or Wealthwood Township, Minnesota, as there is also a view over the banks of Mille Lacs Lake near which all of these towns are situated.
Iron ore mines in Hibbing Minnesota, and harbor views in Duluth including Aerial Bridge with Gondola
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit sites in Minnesota. View of world's largest open-pit iron ore mines in Hibbing Minnesota. Giant steam shovels,mining train, railroad tracks are seen. View from high up in Duluth looking down at Lake Superior. View of freighter in Lake Superior just off the shore at Duluth. Loading of iron ore into hull of the iron ore carrying freighter "General Orlando M. Poe" at dock in Duluth. Train cars carrying ore sit atop a bridge over a pier in the water. Ore seen sliding down chutes from the railcars into the waiting freighter. Views of Duluth's Aerial Bridge (an Aerial Transporter Bridge) in action spanning the sandbar known as Minnesota Point (or Park Point), as designed by Thomas McGilvray. This is the bridge before its redesign as an Aerial Lift Bridge. The Bridge's Gondola is seen moving from one side to the other.
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford inspect the 10 millionth Ford beside the Ford quadricycle
Views of the ten millionth Ford Model-T beside the original Ford quadricycle. Henry Ford,founder of Ford motor company and his son Edsel Ford inspect quadricycle and the ten millionth Ford motorcade in turns.
Detroit,Toledo and Ironton (DT&I) Railroad in United States.
Detroit,Toledo and Ironton (DT&I) Railroad operating between cities of Michigan and Ohio in United States. Views of African American men working to clean and polish the railroad locomotive. A steam engine attached to the railroad train moving on railroad tracks. Views of railroad station,rail tracks and a steam engine moving on a turntable at the railway yard. Slates describe Ford policy for lower freight rates, higher wages, unusual service, courteous treatment working in three years' time to transform the D.T.&I.R.R. into a proitable unit.