Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant Showing One Day's Output of 1000 Cars, 1913
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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.
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
Postcard
Subject Date
1913
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
94.112.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 5.5 in
Width: 24.5 in
Inscriptions
Text in lower left corner of image: 1000 / FORD CARS / A SINGLE / DAY'S OUTPUT / AT THE / FORD / PLANT / DETROIT
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