Cars of Ford Motor Company at Greenfield Village in Michigan. A Ford car model V-8 driven on mountain road. Mountain in the background.
Early models of Ford Motor Company at Greenfield Village in Michigan. A Ford car Model-N of 1905. Man comes and checks radiator of car, cranks and polishes head lamps. He gets on to the car and adjusts his goggles. He drives the car on muddy road. Man stops the car, gets down and remove wood log from road and get in again to drive. A family travels in Ford Model-T touring car. Luggage on running board rack.
Greenfield Village in Michigan. Workers at a loom shop. Two workers operate hand powered table looms. Yarn passes through the heddles in shafts.
Wright brother's house in Greenfield Village near Dearborn, MI. The house and their bicycle shop were moved there from Dayton, OH in 1936 by Henry Ford. A two story house with trees on both sides, near the road. An old fashioned horse drawn carriage with words, 'Greenfield Village' written on the side and drawn by two horses passes on road in front of the house. A man and women in period clothing pass in front of the house.
Aviatrix (Woman pilot) Nancy Hopkins, who was invited to fly in the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour, is seen in the cockpit of her Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, manufactured by the Viking Flying Boat Company. ("Kitty Hawk" is written on her plane's vertical stabilizer.) She has been assigned the number 22 for this event, which starts at the Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan. Scene shifts to A Waco CSO J6-7 airplane, serial number NC634N, taking off. A large formation of U.S. Army Boeing P-12 biplanes flies overhead. Crowd of spectators is gathered on ramp behind the airport terminal. The Army airplanes fly back overhead again. In foreground, a Ford Trimotor passenger airplane sits with its 3 engines running. Bill Stout of Ford's Stout Metal Aircraft Company shakes hands with Texaco Company's pilot, Captain Frank M. Hawks, in the cockpit of his Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship," named Texaco 13. Photographer takes their picture. (Hawks is a tour referee, and about to depart for Grand Forks to make advance preparations there.) Mrs. Henry Ford steps up and also shakes Hawks' hand. He waves goodbye and taxis out for takeoff.
1930 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford Trimotor aircraft in flight approaching the Ford Airport. Two men on the airfield. The Ford Trimotor taxiing on the airfield. A man on the airfield watching the trimotor. 'Ford' written on the side of the aircraft and number '5' written on the tail. Men getting out of the airplane and a few men standing at its door. Two women and two men pose and three men talk beside the trimotor. Woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins, steps from the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane (NC30V), and poses beside it. (The number "22" is written on the aircraft fuselage and "Kitty Hawk" on the tail.) .Men and women behind the aircraft. Another aircraft in the background.
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