View of bins where coal, limestone and ore are stored at the Ford Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Crane moves limestone in bins. View of mine buildings and loaded gondolas. Mining machinery in operation inside a mine. Loaded mine train leaves mine. Coal is dumped at the top of tipple. Coal on conveyor belt. Workers sort coal in breaker. Freight train loaded with coal move into plant yard.
View of snow-covered iron mine area. (Ford Motor Company owned iron mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.), Ore bucket moves up incline to top of tipple. View from top of tipple. Ore ship under way at the dock. Large Hulett cranes unload ore from hold of ship at Ford River Rouge Plant in Michigan. Blast furnaces at the plant. Slag pours into large ladle on railroad car. Ladle cars with slag move through plant. Ladle cars tipping and pouring slag outside plant. Steam shovel scoops cooled slag and load it into railroad gondola. Workers shovel in yard. Tractor and cart move through yard. View of cement plant. Workers stacking bags of cement on truck and flat bed trailers. Loaded truck and trailers move away from loading ramp.
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.
Cylinder blocks move on overhead and belt type conveyors at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Views of cylinder blocks on conveyors. Men work on machine blocks attached to huge revolving machine. Overall view of block assembly line. Blocks on conveyors. View inside motor assembly building. Workers work on blocks and parts of motors.
Several ships at a dock scrapped. Workers with acetylene torches cut sections from side. Crane lifts sections from ship. A crane moves a pile of scrape. Train load of scrap moves into plant. Huge press cuts and crushes the scrap. Electro- magnet on crane moves scrap.
View of a hot metal (iron) mixer at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Molten iron from ladle on a crane flows into the mixer. Mixed molten iron from several heats is later poured into the ladle. Crane carries the bucket and pours iron into an open hearth furnace. Crane moves the ladle at the rear of the open hearth furnace after the iron is converted to steel. Steel is poured in and the crane moves the ladle; a slag pot can be seen to the left of the ladle to catch the lighter slag runoff (not shown). A train of ingot molds is seen moving to be filled with the molten steel.
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