Willys automobile company makes post war use of military Jeeps as tractor, light truck and passenger car, in Toledo, Ohio. Men drive military Jeeps out of a building. Jeeps used as tractor for attachments of plower and harvest machine. Jeeps used as a sack making machine. conveyor belts attached to the jeeps. Jeep being used as shredder and independent power unit. (World War II period)
The film 'Mass Production of Jeeps' shows the production of jeeps at the Willys-Overland factory in Toledo, Ohio, during World War 2. Workers seen in the jeep manufacturing plant where Jeeps are being produced on an assembly line. Powertrain installation, chassis painting, and body tub installation are shown. Manufactured jeeps are driven out of the factory through the enclosed ramp alongside factory Building 107. Finished jeeps are shown parked on the roof of factory Building 110.
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad billows steam as it pulls a long freight train along track beside a river. Four railroad men gather around a small utility rail car. They load tools into it and one climbs into it as the other three push it along the track. Downtown street scene in Wellston, Ohio. Several persons walk on sidewalk in front of the Wellston Post Office. Soldiers Monument seen on Broadway Street,in background. A traffic circle with Civil War cannon and cannon balls on display in the center. A family posing on the porch of a home. One of the men wears overalls over his shirt and tie. Painter in overalls stenciling the DT&I logo on a freight car.
Scenes of downtown, Jackson, Ohio. View of the Jackson County Courthouse on Broadway Street, completed in 1858. The Globe Iron and Furnace Company works with steam rising from it. View from moving railroad car of the Detroit Toledo & Ironton line, as it passes by wooden buildings and the Jackson train station. DT&I steam locomotive and coal car parked under water tower. Operator lowers tube into the back of coal car and services it with water. Next it is serviced with coal from a hopper.
A Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton railroad train arrives and interchanges with the Chesapeake and Ohio at Greggs. The steam locomotive is pulling a passenger train. It continues northbound,crossing the Scioto River (out of its banks) and the film ends just before crossing the N&W at Glen Jean.
American robot bombs, America's answer to the German V-1 buzzbomb, being prepared in Dearborn, Michigan during World War 2. Workers weld bomb casing at Ford robot bomb factory. The workers move long tube like bombs with jet engines. They are known by nickname "Flying Chimney". The bombs on wheels. Men with ear protection in a testing area as the engines are fired during testing. Buildings in the background. Flame shooting from the jet engines. Workers including some women assemble the bombs at a plant in Toledo, Ohio, where wings and warheads are also built. A woman war production worker lying inside the body of a robot bomb and working on its assembly. The bombs take off from a launch pad in a gully at an Army Air Force test site. A booster cuts loose from the American Robot Bomb and hits water at a distance as the buzz bomb flies through the air, with an estimate 200 mile range. The bombs in flight. The booster hits water.
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