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Show Ford Motor Company To Again Exhibit at Fair Dearborn, Mich. Tbe Ford Motor Company will exhibit again this season in tbe Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, it was annonuced today by Edsel Ford, president, of the company. . The exposition, occupying picturesque pic-turesque Treasure Isiana in San-Francisco San-Francisco Bay, begins it's second season May 23. "Our exhibit for 1940 will be entirely new, and will be carried car-ried out on the same scale as the Ford Exhibit which attract- prl npnrlv i nnrt Hftfl pvnneittfin visitors during 1939," Mr. Ford said. "The work of getting our displays In place in the Ford uunning on treasure island win ; begin soon". ; Mr. Ford pointed out that the first automobile assembly line ever shown at an international exposition was at San Francisco just 25 years ago when Ford cars were produced on the Fair I grounds every few minutes to the amazement of millions of visitors. vi-sitors. "That assembly line, a duplicate dupli-cate of the line ien in our Highland High-land Park plant, was -something entirely new. Because of it and of another Ford development the interchangeability of parts assembly branches such as the Ford Richmond plant just across the bay from Treasure Island, became possible. In the quarter century since ' the exhibition assembly as-sembly line was running on th grounds of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 26,000,-000 26,000,-000 Ford cars were produced by I those methods, and last year. just before the new Exposition ' ' opened, Ford car No. 27,000,000 I came off the line in Richmond. Within a few weeks the 28,000,-00 28,000,-00 0th Ford car will be assembled. assembl-ed. "My father, recalling tjie inspiration in-spiration he received from watch ing a gasoline engine run efficiently effi-ciently at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, has long felt that expositions play an important parfl in stimulating industrial progress. We hope our new exhibit on Treasure Island will measure up fully to its long list of forerunners, forerun-ners, and that it will provide en tertainment and inspiration for those who return to the Exposition Exposi-tion this year as well as for millions mil-lions of new visitors to our building there." |