Show miles of conveyors Convey in ford plant V 1 t WN Y V ar CA 4 Y this picture shows two types of conveyors in use in the rouge plant of the ford motor company N ENDLESS chain conveyor f three and a halt half to lour four miles long said to be the longest in the world has just been completed at the rouge plant of 0 the ford motor company at dearborn Alic michigan higan on it parts ot of ford cars in the s ot of manufacture are transported from we one building to another and completed parts are carried direct to railroad cars for or shipment to branch assembly plants the conveyor which carries its argo on suspended hooks has a daily capacity tor for parts weighing over pounds it supplants freight cars and trucks which nave lave been be used tor for the tr trans anster fee or of many parts from one point to another in the ford plant this longest conveyor ot of them all is a development of 0 the ford policy that nothing should be done by manual labor that could better be done by machine in the early days of his ing career mr ford devised the as line a moving track on which cars in the process of 0 assembly went to the workmen instead ot of the workmen carrying parts to the car the assembly line perfected in many ways is now used by automobile manufacturers generally the value of the conveyor in reducing physical labor in saving time in preserving system and in cutting costs soon became apparent and its use was extended to other purposes about the plant now there are literally miles ot of conveyors of oe various types in the ford plant some of 0 them carry parts from one building to another and are carefully synchronized so that the parts arrive at precisely the right moment and in the exact spot where they are am needed others transport red hot ingot goa of steel weighing nearly a ton each still etli other smove outgoing shipments it if it were not for or the conveyors according coi whig to officials of the ford company pany mass production would not be possible on its present scale |