Show M MIes 0 les of f fC C s ii h hI 0 I Ford r od PH b ii Lr L r v N f IJ d ds OK t IV f 14 ti tiL s sy r fn J X I L- L Li i C r ra a S F Lr 3 J N y Isey k Isek Ise rr fad A x a mac El Els s 1 i IS picture shows two types of conveyors In use In the Rouge Plant of thE theFord Ford Motor Company 4 4 n N ENDLESS chain conveyor A three and a half halt to four miles miles- miles w long lone said to be the longest loosest In tl c world orld has just been completed at atthe atthe the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Cum pan at Dearborn Michigan l On OnIt Onit OnIt It parts of Ford cars In iu the process or of manufacture are arc transported from fromme mc ire building to another and completed p al are aie e carried direct to railroad r for shipment to branch assembly plants the lie H conveyor which bleh carries Its go 30 O oil ou suspended hooks hooles has a dally daily for 00 parts weighing 0 oser er 2 pounds it supplants eight cars an and trucks which v base e peen heen used for tor the transfer of many man pacts palts from one point to another in iii the ford plant This 1 his lon longest lonie st t conveyor com e or of them all Is isa isi a development de of the f lord Ion ord policy pol Ie that nothing should be done by b man manual lIal labor that could better be done by machine In the eaily eail days of his bis manufacturing Ing career Mr l Iou ford I old devised the as a line line a movine mosing mo Ing track on cars in the thc process of assembly to the workmen instead of the surk urk men carr carrying Ing parts to tb the car The assem assembly bI line perfected in man many wa ways s sis is now used by automobile lD generally The of the com e or In redu ins Ing physical labor in sa savin V lilt time In system and in cutting cost cosh soon became apparent and ind its use way 10 extended to other purposes about the plant sow ow there are literally mlle miles of 01 conveyors com e ors of various sarious types In the rord rani plant Some of them carry carr pacts ts h om omone one bUilding to another and are arc care carefully full fully synchronized s so that the parts all anise c at precisely the right moment and in the exact spot where they al needed Others red hot In Ingots ingots gots of steel welsh elgh ins Ing rl ne nearly i a ton each Still mo move mose e outgoing ship if it ft were e not for the conveyors tic cording to om chis of the Ford Corn Com Company parry pany mass would not be possible on Its present scale |