Workers moving the car body on assembly line at Ford Motor Company,Michigan. Workers with heavy equipment working on car chassis,attaching wheels to the car chassis and assembling different parts to the motor car. A lever moves Model-T car body over the workers and workers lower the car body with roof and attach it.
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.
Views of the ten millionth Ford motorcade passing in front of the Ford factory buildings in Higland Park. Workers and citizens fill the streets and there is much celebrating. The car and its motorcade are beginning a trip from New York to San Francisco.
Views of the Ford Highland Park Plant buildings. Streetcars move on railroad tracks and men stand in queue awaiting for streetcars. People leave the Highland Park Ford plant building and get in streetcars.
Close up view of engine for ten millionth(10,000,000) Ford Model-T automobile. Ford motor and number 10,000,000 visible on the motor. A man stamping number with dies and mallet over the motor. Crowd of other Ford workers gathered around the motor. Ten millionth motor and several other motor moving on huge conveyor. Workers visible near the motor assembly line.
Workers busy in assembling the ten millionth Ford Model-T car. Several workers with different equipment working in assembling the motor car. Workers with wheels assembling the car and as the motor car is assembled at the end of the assembly line, the cheering workers stand next to the car. "The Ten millionth Ford" is visible painted on the back of the car, along with "New York to San Francisco via Lincoln Highway" painted on the side.
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