The working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Workers at a Studebaker automobile plant work on fixing the engine on chassis. Making motor block mold. Cores made of oil and sand baked at 350 0C. Worker draws moulds from ovens. Placing cores in moulds for making cranks, and fixing them with screws. Molten iron poured into the mould. After cooling the workers remove mould and an automobile engine is ready. Engine trimmed, milled and given various tests.
The working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Manufacturing stages of crankshaft and engine. Repeated blows from a six ton ramming hammer mold a metal block into shape. Worker draws this under another ramming hammer. Twenty different machines work on a crankshaft. Soap water on crankshaft during working. Workers testing with tapes for balance checking of the shaft thus formed.
The working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles. Assembly and finishing of the automobile passenger cabin at plant in in South Bend, Indiana. Wooden structure of body of car covered by sheet metal paneling. Workers work on lathe machines to impart finishing to the automobile body so formed. Painter coats enamel three times on the body of car. Sets of lined up car bodies with seats. Windscreen, seats, hood and other accessories mounted on the body, seen in a progression using stop action filming. Body mounted on chassis. Finally the finished Studebaker cars are driven out of the factory.
Various steps of truck manufacturing, at a factory. Ignition system of a truck consists of a magneto and four wires. A heavy generator used for lighting and starting the engine. Workers at factory test engine by power required to start it. View of "GMC" lettering for General Motors Company on the engine block. Trucks driving on uneven and water clogged roads.
Pilot successfully lands a B-52H (6-032) airplane with its vertical stabilizer tail torn off at Eaker AFB, Blytheville, Arkansas. The B-52 plane gets damaged during a test flight over northern New Mexico. The vertical stabilizer was ripped off due to buffeting stresses during turbulence (loss of structural integrity). Pilot Charles "Chuck" Fisher lands safely after five hours of flying without tail. Crew and ground support staff on the airfield look at the torn tail.
A football match between Wolverines of Michigan and Hawkeyers of Iowa at Iowa City. The Wolverines of Michigan defeated the unbeaten Hawleyers of Iowa by 17-14.
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