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Documentary titled 'Story of Automobile' depicts assembling of various parts of automobiles at a factory in United States.

Documentary titled 'Story of Automobile' depicts the working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Workers at a Studebaker automobile plant work on the frame of an automobile. Assembling the frame, assembling gear and worm. Worker assembles piston and shaft with gear box. Filling the housing with grease. Spark and gas control throttles connected with the gears.

Date: 1925
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036567
Manufacturing of Studebaker automobile engine from its moulds at a factory in United States.

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.

Date: 1925
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036568
Various processes of manufacturing a crankshaft at a Studebaker car factory in United States.

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.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036569
Various stages of manufacturing body of a Studebaker car at a factory in United States.

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.

Date: 1925
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036570
Car engines being assembled and tested in Studebaker automobile plant

Views of an engine assembly line in Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana. A worker selects a crankshaft from a stack and places it into an engine block. Another worker moves an engine block using an overhead chain hoist. At another assembly station, a worker places piston rod assemblies into an engine block. Workers seated at a series of stations add more parts into engine blocks. Nearly completed built up engines move slowly on a conveyor as workers add final touches to complete them. An engine started and run on a test stand. A small amount of oil smoke is seen as an inspector checks the running 6 cylinder engine.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071729
Auto body parts being manufactured and assembled in the Studebaker factory

Camera on a slowly moving overhead conveyor shows numerous stacks of sheet metal next to machines in the stamping section of the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana. Next, as a stamping machine slowly rises open, men remove automobile frame parts from it. Closeup of the stamping machine slowly stamping the frame parts which men then remove from the press. The name Studebaker appears on the machine. At another location men are seen removing stamped auto fenders from a similar press. Closeup of a machine slowly pressing sheet metal between a pair of mating presses to form a fender. Worker holds finished fender up for the camera. In the auto body section of the factory, men place an auto body frame on a wheeled dolly. Next workers are seen placing a lower rear body section on a car being assembled. Other workers are seen hand grinding and otherwise smoothing surfaces of assembled auto bodies. In final scenes, workers sit inside the assembled bodies and apply trim to the interior using tack hammers and other tools.

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071730