Material Control Flow Chart for B-24-M and B-24-N Airplanes Built at Ford Motor Company Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1945
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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 sub-assemblies. By April 1944, Willow Run employees completed B-24 airplanes at the rate of one every 63 minutes.
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 sub-assemblies. By April 1944, Willow Run employees completed B-24 airplanes at the rate of one every 63 minutes.
Artifact
Flow chart
Subject Date
01 June 1945
Creators
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.411.8
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Dimensions
Height: 18 in
Width: 24 in
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