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1,000 Ford Model T Chassis outside the Highland Park Plant, 1913

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Artifact Overview

As the moving assembly line evolved, Ford Motor Company promoted its growing manufacturing prowess with clever promotional photographs. This image shows 1,000 Model T chassis lined up outside Ford's Highland Park plant. The chassis represent a single nine-hour shift's production in August 1913 -- an impressive total reached even before the assembly line was fully implemented.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1913

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

64.167.833.P.15

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: 7.25 in
Width: 10.75 in

1,000 Ford Model T Chassis outside the Highland Park Plant, 1913