Ford Motor Company Manual Containing Material Control Flow Chart for the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1944

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Artifact Overview

Building something as complex as a B-24 bomber on an assembly line was no easy task. Ford Motor Company officials methodically divided the complicated airplane into 11 major assemblies, and then further split these into 69 subassemblies. By April 1944, Willow Run employees completed B-24 airplanes at the rate of one every 63 minutes.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Manual (Instructional material)

Date Made

1944

Subject Date

1944

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.411.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Dimensions

Height: 11.5 in
Width: 9 in

Ford Motor Company Manual Containing Material Control Flow Chart for the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1944