Views of rail tracks,people walking on roads and Ford motor plant at Highland Park in background. Workers standing in lines and awaiting streetcars. Streetcar moving on tracks.
Workers affix wheels to the car chassis on assembly line in the Ford Motor Company plant at Highland Park. Various workers adding their efforts on the assembly line. A better dressed foreman watches the workers and their progress. Rows of tires mounted on the wall in the background
Highland Park ,Michigan: Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company along with his son Edsel Ford, climb up the assembly line and observe the fifteen millionth Model-T as it reaches the end of the assembly line. They get in the car and drive it off the assembly line, park it outside, and leave the car. Painted on the car are the words, "The Fifteen Millionth Ford"
Henry Ford works on historical preservation project. McGuffey readers are seen. Sketch of Ford family farm in Springwells, Michigan. View of homestead at the farm, that Ford restores. He examines the farm's steam engine. The historic Wayside Inn, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, which Ford purchased to construct a community of historic buildings. View of the restored Botsford Inn,Detroit, Michigan, that Ford bought in 1924.View of Eagle Tavern, in Clinton, Michigan,before,and,after its purchase and restoration by Henry Ford. Concerned about need for additional buildings to house artifacts, Henry Ford consulting with Detroit architect,Robert O. Derrick (with mustache) and two other men. Derrick's plan for the Henry Ford museum is unrolled. It borrows from Independence Hall, Congress Hall, and the old City Hall in Philadelphia.Views of the Clock Tower and museum, as completed in 1929. A pictorial map of the Edison Institute Museum and Historical Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. View of construction begun in 1927. Thomas A. Edison laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, that Ford acquired for Greenfield Village. On a windy September 17, 1928, Thomas A. Edison steps from a car, and pauses before entering the doorway of his restored laboratory, in Greenfield Village. Henry and Mrs.Ford step from their car to quickly join him in the building.Edsel Ford and his wife, also follow. Inside the building, Edison officially open the site by starting a steam engine in the laboratory. Ford and Edison converse (Ford speaking close to Edison's ear, because he is hard of hearing). Later, Edison, in a cornerstone ceremony, imbeds, a shovel contributed by Luther Burbank, and then writes in cement of the cornerstone.Newspapers show coverage of the formal dedication of the museum and Greenfield village, October 21, 1929. Workers rushing the Village toward completion for that event. The Smithcreek Railroad depot is moved to the Village. Workers preparing installation of the depot.
Exterior and interior views of the River Rouge plant of Ford Motors Company in United States. Scene changes to Highland Park, Michigan plant, as workers assemble the fifteen millionth Ford Model T car. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford inside the factory inspect this model at assembly lines. Henry and Edsel Ford sit in a quadricycle and the Model T behind them. Portrait of Henry Ford in the factory. Body lowered on the chassis of Model T in assembly lines. Model T is driven out of the plant.
Views of the Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant building and several vehicles moving on street in front of the building. Automobiles move on the busy market streets of Detroit. People,streetcars, bicycles, some horse driven wagons, and automobiles move on the busy city streets at two different intersections. An accelerated view of traffic moving in Detroit.
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