President Wilson visits the Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. His motorcade drives past a large crowd standing along the edge of a street. American flag bunting covers his car's hood. The President waves at spectators.
Exterior views of Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Views of plant, buildings, workers and smokestacks of the plant. Smokestacks emit fumes.
Henry Ford near Ford Model- A automobile engine block. Sign over the engine reads 'No 1 completed October 20, 1927'. Ford and guest stamp '1' into the engine block of this, the first Ford Model A built. Ford poses and converses with officials.
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.
Views of Detroit, Michigan. Chamber's sightseeing bus loaded with passengers driven pass Lincoln Mercury Building at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Detroit. Tourists enter the bus. Exterior views of the Plant. Industrial crane in the Plant Yard. 'Benson Ford', ore boat on the dock. Bus driven along the street in Plant area. Tourists leave the bus. Tourists enter Rouge plant with a guide.
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