| Show ef ford plant picture chews two types of conveyors in use in the rouse plant of ford moor company ENDLESS chain conveyor AN three and a halt to our miles long said to be abo longest in the world has just been completed at the rouge plant of the ford motor company at dearborn michigan on it parts of ford in the process of manufacture are transported from one building to another and completed parts are carried direct to railroad cars or shipment to branch assembly plants the conveyor which caralee ua cargo on suspended hoolis has a dally capacity tor parts weighing over pounds it eup planta freight care and truck which have been for the transfer of many parts from one point to another in the ford plant this longest conveyor of them all is a development of the ford policy that nothing should be done by manual labor that could better be done by machine in the early days of his manufacture int career mr ford devised the as une a moving track on cars in the process ot assembly wen to the workmen of the rork men carrying parts to the car ane assembly line perfected in many ways Is now used by automobile manlutac jurers generally the value of the conveyor conye la redu ing physical labor in saving time li preserving system and in cutting cost soon became apparent and its use wat extended to other purposes about the plant now there are literally miles ot conveyors ol 01 various types in the ford plant some of them carry froni one building to another and are care tully so that the part arrive at precisely the right moment and in the exact spot where they are needed others transport red hot in gots ot steel weighing nearly a too each still others move outgoing ship ments it tt were not tor the conveyors ac cording to officials ot the ford corn pany mass production would abot be possible on its present scale |
