Show miles of conveyors in ford plant 46 r W va V A A T VIM this picture shows how two types of conveyors in use in the rouge plant of tia tha ford motor company N 1 I ENDLESS chain conveyor along A three and a halt to tour four miles long said to be the longest in the world has just been completed at the rouge plant ot of the ford motor company at dearborn michigan on it parts of 0 ford cars in the ot of manufacture are tra transported n ted from one building to another and completed parts are carried direct to railroad cars tor for shipment to branch assembly plants the conveyor which carries its cargo on suspended books has a dally daily capacity for parts weighing over pounds it supplants freight cars care and trucks which have been used tor for the transfer of many parts from on one point to another in the ford plant this longest conveyor 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 manufacturing career mr ford devised the as line a moving track on which cars in the process of 0 assembly wem to the workmen instead of bt the work wor i men carrying parts to the car the assembly line perfected in many ways is now used by automobile manufacturers generally the value of 0 the conveyor in relic re lic tog ing physical labor in saving time 1 in n preserving system and in cutting zos boais b soon became apparent and its ita use VIM wa extended to other purposes about 01 alln plant now there are literally miles 0 conveyors of 0 various types in the pori fori plant some ot of them carry parts front roni one building to another and are carefully synchronized so that the part arrive at precisely the right nioma and in the exact spot where they are needed others transport red hot in gots of steel weighing nearly a toi tat each still others move outgoing shipments it it were not tor for the conveyors ac cording to officials of 0 the ford corn com pany mass production would not be possible on its ita present scale |