Henry Ford Watching Workers Riveting Center Wing Section at the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1942
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At Willow Run, Ford Motor Company built B-24 bomber planes for World War II using automobile mass production techniques. Airplanes were much more complex than cars. They required constant design changes poorly suited to a standardized assembly line. Ford overcame these difficulties and, at the plant's peak, Willow Run crews produced an average of one bomber every 63 minutes.
At Willow Run, Ford Motor Company built B-24 bomber planes for World War II using automobile mass production techniques. Airplanes were much more complex than cars. They required constant design changes poorly suited to a standardized assembly line. Ford overcame these difficulties and, at the plant's peak, Willow Run crews produced an average of one bomber every 63 minutes.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
21 December 1942
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.833.77289.8
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: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Typed caption on paper adhered to back reads: Henry Ford, the genius behind the approximate bomber-an- / hour production at his Willow Run plant, watches intently while / women workers drill and rivet on the center wing section of a B-24 / Bomber.
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