Final Assembly of Ford Model A Automobiles at the Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1930
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Engineers at Ford's Highland Park plant fine-tuned the moving assembly line. With this experience, Ford created the "B" Building at its new River Rouge complex with extensive conveyer systems to accommodate the flow of parts and processes. Here, line workers prepare Model A chassis on the assembly line. Ford's Model A was the first automobile fully built at the Rouge.
Engineers at Ford's Highland Park plant fine-tuned the moving assembly line. With this experience, Ford created the "B" Building at its new River Rouge complex with extensive conveyer systems to accommodate the flow of parts and processes. Here, line workers prepare Model A chassis on the assembly line. Ford's Model A was the first automobile fully built at the Rouge.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
18 June 1930
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.833.55341.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10.25 in
Inscriptions
In lower right front corner: 55341- No 1
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