Ford Rouge Plant Pictorial Flow Chart, "Complete Car Can Be Built in 28 Hours," 1940
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Artifact Overview
This diagram illustrates how Ford Motor Company's massive River Rouge Plant turned coal, iron ore, limestone, rubber, and sand into iron, steel, tires, glass, and finished automobiles.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
25 February 1941
Subject Date
19 August 1940
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.833.75060
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 in
Inscriptions
Inscribed into image at upper left corner:
RIVER ROUGE / HERE IS FLOW CHART OF PLANT/ FROM ORE TO AUTO. COMPLETE / CAR CAN BE BUILT IN 28 HOURS"
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