Ford Tri-Motor Airplane, Interior Cabin Showing Steward Serving Passengers, September 1929
THF284999 / Ford Tri-Motor Airplane, Interior Cabin Showing Steward Serving Passengers, September 1929
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Artifact Overview
Passenger air travel was a completely new -- and perhaps fearsome -- concept for most Americans in the 1920s. National advertisements for the Ford Tri-Motor promoted "roomy and comfortable" wicker passenger chairs -- one of the many advertised amenities used to convince a skeptical public of the appeal of flying in a Ford plane. Later models of the Ford Tri-Motor featured almuminum seats covered with leather.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
September 1930
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.55360.4
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 11 in
Width: 8 in
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SetFord Tri-Motor: Passenger Travel
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Stout Air Lines advertised direct airplane service between Detroit and Cleveland, but this wasn't strictly true. Stout's "Detroit" terminal was, in fact, Ford Airport in Dearborn, ten miles west of the city. Passengers gathered at a station in Detroit and were shuttled by bus to the Dearborn airport where they boarded the actual plane.