View of a teeming (pouring) platform at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Narrow-gauge train. Huge ladle on overhead crane. Showering sparks from molten metal being poured into ingot molds. Workers remove scaling with a rod, then place caps on the ingot molds . Worker with visor over face. Stripper crane removes the mold from red-hot ingot. Ingot is then moved to a soaking pit for uniform re-heating before being rolled in the mill.
Views of raw material storage yards with overhead conveyer cranes at the Ford Motor Company Rouge plants. An open train car moves along a track carrying hot smoking Coke in quenching car for discharge into a Coke Dock below the track. The operator positions the car, looks over the heap and prepares to tilt the car to dump its contents.
New 1951 Ford test car comes over the crest of a hill, being driven through deep mud, in deep water, and over cobble stones, on the Ford Dearborn Michigan test track. View of test driver at the wheel. Test car hits hard bumps. View of Ford's 'Automatic Ride Control' suspension on test track and in the Ford laboratory. View of suspension attached to drive train in laboratory with view of suspension spring. 1951 Ford being tested over desert road in Southwest United States. New 1951 Ford convertible in showroom.
Sun over harbor and view of skyline in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Financial District buildings visible. Steamship ferry boat leaves dock. View of skyline and waterfront. Several steamship ferry boats at a dock. Ore freighters in harbor and on river. View of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit (or Michigan Central Depot, MCS) with passengers coming and going through the railroad train station main entrance. Cars parked in front of the railroad station. Views of city from elevated area. Workers build a house. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic in business district, including streetcars and automobiles. Shops and businesses along downtown streets. A police officer directs traffic from a raised platform in the center of an intersection. Sidewalks crammed with pedestrians. Linked 2-car streetcars pass by on streets.
Ford Motor Company film about the Rouge River Plants in Dearborn Michigan. Aerial view of Detroit Michigan, showing major city buildings and waterfront, with ships tied up. steam locomotive pulls a long passenger train along track passing through industrial area. Sidewalk scene in front of a hotel in Detroit, Michigan, where tourists are boarding a tour bus to take them to the Ford Company plants. The bus drives along streets of Detroit. Scene shifts to tour buses arriving at the Ford Motor Company Administration Building. The tourists leave their buses and walk to entrance of the Building. Visitors are seen seated inside the building as a tour guide addresses them. They all leave and reboard their busses. Aerial views of the Rouge River plants are seen from a low flying airplane (not shown). Smoke rises from numerous factory stacks. Ships and barges load and unload raw materials and waste products. A Stout Airlines Ford Trimotor airplane flies past the camera plane.It displays the number 12 on its tail. Views of electrified rail yard with an electric locomotive pulling freight cars. A steam locomotive moving backwards on a different track.
Interiors of Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Views of furnaces, molten metal pouring out and plant workers. Train of ladle cars move on track. Molten iron in molds. Molten metal pours from ladle into furnace. View of exterior of plant. Large crane in operation.
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