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Visitors in buses tour the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants
View inside a busload of persons touring the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plants. A Ford tour guide is standing at the front of the bus describing things to the visitors. Cars and trucks driving back and forth in the factory yard, next to a building with freight cars parked on an adjacent railroad siding. Another view of guide and visitors inside the bus. They pass a large building with a long conveyor in front of it, and men on a scaffold working on upper windows. Views alternate between inside the bus and views of plant buildings. Four very tall smoke stacks are seen extending from the ground in front of one building. A traveling crane is seen in motion where raw materials are stored at the waterfront. A large bulk carrier ship is docked in a canal. A compact plant with 8 closely positioned smoke stacks is seen in the background. Another large ore carrier ship is being unloaded by a crane. Glimpse inside the bus. View from the bus of two more buses, ahead, as they drive near rail lines between buildings. Another glimpse inside the bus. View upward to cranes and conveyors overhead. View from bus as it follows two ahead of it. At end, visitors exit the bus in an open area
Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in Kentucky.
Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.
Loading trucks at the Ford Motor Company Cement Plant in the River Rouge complex
Two African American men working at the Ford Motor Company River Rouge cement plant. One loads bags of cement onto a flat bed truck with two trailers, while the other monitors the bags as the come down a chute. Another, smaller truck, behind the trailer truck, is also being loaded. After the loading is finished, A man retrieves a chock from behind the left rear wheel of the last trailer, while the the truck slowly pulls away.
Cutting of steel and iron ships into scrap metal for reuse in Ford automotive factories
River dock scene near Ford River Rouge manufacturing plant. Men using blow torches stand inside partially disassembled old steel and iron ship hulls. They are cutting the ship hulls into large pieces, which are then moved by cranes to form giant stacks adjacent to a railroad train bed, awaiting transport to Ford factories for melting and recycling, to make automobiles.
Ship hull pieces transported to Ford River Rouge plant and crushed during recycling for use in making automobiles.
Large pieces of old, cut, double layer ship hulls are seen in piles next to railroad tracks. A large crane loads steel and iron hull pieces onto flatbed rail cars. Railroad train flatbed cars rolling into Ford River Rouge plant carrying pieces of old steel and iron ship hulls. View of a giant piece of ship hull being fed into a crushing device that flattens the double wall hull into one piece. View of rollers past the crushing block to carry crushed pieces away. Crane with magnet is used to lift pieces of crushed ship hull and drop them into smaller bins on a flatbed rail car.
Crank shaft and cam shaft machining at Ford Motor Company Rouge River complex.
At start, grinders are seen operating cooled by liquid sprayed at the tool faces. Closeups of grinding wheels in operation on creating a crank shaft. Scene shifts to worker operating a multiple milling machine. Closeup shows a cam shaft being milled with cooling oil flowing over the work surfaces.
