Views of Ford buildings, residential areas, public parks and cheering spectators on streets as the ten millionth Ford motorcade passes. The spectators cheer during the trip of ten millionth Ford Model-T motorcade is getting started. It passes by the Ford plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Painted on the side of the car is "The ten millionth. New York to san Francisco via Lincoln Highway". The vehicle is seen parked in front of large building with tall stone columns. As it drives off, the officials there shake hands.
Workers moving the car body on assembly line at Ford Motor Company,Michigan. Workers with heavy equipment working on car chassis,lowering engines in car and assembling different parts onto the car body.
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.
Smoke rises from tall chimneys of Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan,United States. Workers walking on the plant grounds, many Ford automobiles parallel parked in front of the plant building. Busy street traffic with many cars.
Ten Millionth "Model T" Ford motor car in Highland Park, Michigan. Side of the car reads 'The Ten millionth New York to San Francisco via Lincoln Highway' at the Ford Motor Company's big Highland Park plant. Several views of the car. Spectators around the car. Car moves through the business district. Traffic on road. Man drives car. Dense crowds around the car. Crowd waves American flag in background.
Shows several aviation "firsts" accomplished by U.S. Army Air Service aviators in the period from 1918 through 1924. A close formation of biplanes in flight. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chat with Major Fleet, Officer in charge, on the occasion of the first air mail flight, inaugurated on May 15,1918 between Washington DC and New York.The mail is loaded into the Curtis JN-4 aircraft. Pilot in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and in flight. Air Service. Mention of aviators helping spot forest fires. Smoke rising from forest fires and mountain ranges. In 1920, U.S. Army Captain St. Clair Streett is seen with some of his Squadron who flew four De Havilland DH-4 aircraft 9,000 miles, from New York City to Nome, Alaska. Two of the men play with pet dogs. Their itinerary is painted on the side of one of the aircraft, along with the names of pilot and mechanic (C.E. Crumline and J.E. Long). In 1923 the first non stop coast-to-coast flight was made in the Fokker T-2 aircraft. . A sign on the aircraft reads 'Army Air Service non stop coast to coast'.First Lieutenants Oakley O.Kelly and John A. Macready board the aircraft, at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on May 2, 1923. Their Fokker T-2 in flight. Their arrival at Rockwell Field, on Coronado Island (San Diego) California. In 1924, Lt. Russell Maughan is seen boarding his P-1 Hawk airplane at Mitchel Field, on Long Island, New York, and taking off , bound for Crissy Field at the Presidio, San Francisco, California. His goal is the first dawn-to-dusk, coast-to-coast flight. Views of his P-1 Hawk airplane flying over Manhattan, New York City.
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