Ford workers on assembly line assemble Ford model-A automobiles at a Ford motor plant in United States. Several phases of the assembly line operation are seen, including chassis work, engine block work, and body canopy placement. Model-A cars driven out of the plant and inspected. Exterior views of the plant and plant workers. Motorcade of Ford model-A cars and trucks leaves the plant, including one car with front seats and no rear body. Model A sedan and Model A Coupes drive off the line. One Model A Roadster is seen at the end of the line. Circa 1928-1929.
Exterior views of a Ford Motor plant in United States. Road test of a Ford Model-A car done on rough and muddy terrain, across fields, dirt, and railroad tracks. The Model A sedan driving fast on varied terrian outside the factory. View inside car of car's speedometer showing rising speed. Factory plant buildings and smoke from the smokestacks can be seen in background. Scene changes to show a Model A Coupe test drive at very high speeds. The car takes several high speed turns. In its final high speed turn it flips over and the filming abruptly ends. Circa 1928-1929.
Ford Model-A cars on display in United States circa 1928-1931. Several Model-A cars including Victoria Coupe, De Luxe Roadster, De Luxe Coupe, standard Coupe, Cabriolet, Roadster, Sport Coupe, Tudor Sedan, Town Sedan, Fordor sedan, De Luxe Sedan, De Luxe Phaeton, Station wagon. Ford Model-A is driven on the road through woods.
Edsel Ford in the United States. He drives a Model-A Roadster. Interiors of an automobile plant. Edsel and others on a tour of the plant. Edsel poses in a Model A Sports Coupe. Circa 1928-1929.
A Ford Model A Tudor car circa 1928-1929 drives along a country road, past a mail box and turns, driving past a fenced farm. Cluster of farm buildings in background. Next, the car drives up to a farm building and the driver (a farmer) gets out carrying a bundle, that he takes into the house. A roadster convertible car, with its rumble seat removed and a large trunk installed in its place, stops in front of a house. A boy and a girl, on bicycles, ride past on the sidewalk, accompanied by a large black dog.The driver, a vacuum cleaner salesman, removes a demonstration vacuum from the car trunk and goes to the front door, where he shows the vacuum to a lady who answers the door. Change of scene to a 1929 Ford Town Sedan car arriving at the picnic area of a park. A little white dog jumps out as the door is opened, followed by a man and woman carrying things for a picnic. The woman, with others, prepares the picnic table, while a man tends a fireplace in the background. Young folks sit on rocks by a stream in the park. Scene shifts to a roadside sign reading,"Hunter's Old Spring Tourist Camp, Rooms-Cabins, Shower baths, Heated, Drive in, All Modern." View of the cabins in a grove of trees that have their trunks white-washed from the ground level to about 8 feet. Next, two women and two children leave a house and get into a Buick phaeton automobile, and drive away. Weekend sightseers in automobiles, fill the road leading to some attraction.
Opening slate advertises "National Air Mail Week. May 15-21. The 20th Anniversary of your air mail service!" Men load a DC-3 airplane with mail bags at an airport in the United States. Transport truck brings more mail and men load the bags. 1918 Map of United States showing Air Mail connection between New York and Washington. 1923, 1928, 1933 and 1938 maps show further connections to cities such as Chicago, Salt Lake, San Francisco and other destinations. Brief view of International routes between Asia and the United States, and from the United States to South America. Men load mail bags on a plane. The DC-3 plane takes off. Dirigible in background. Closing slate, "Don't Forget. National Air Mail Week."