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Show I FORD TO BUILD HUGE EXPOSITION j AT THE 1934 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR . . 1 1 L A 1.1 tf' aA W. k. " - . ' ,, ..mu Jljl,. Hlj'F m I'll 1 MPI'hlHI ' II I If v i Vv if- - I ' ! . 5" t " l ' ' I $ ? j ? ,.' . ' i I j f ; i ' !! 'tiiwu-; - ' , i i , E s w tsv Sir ; I J 'Mi Likv ''nHu I v ;7t " v y -' r ' i A GREAT Ford Exposition, portraying por-traying the tremendous part the art3, sciences and virtually every other industry plays in the manufacture of today's motor cars, is planned by the Ford Motor Company Com-pany for the 1934 World's Fair. The Ford Exposition will be housed In a giant building 860 feet long to be built In the heart of the fair grounds on an 11-acre plot bordering bor-dering Lake Michigan and flanking the main fair boulevard. Construction Construc-tion of the building will start Mar. 1. In the dominant central building will be housed Henry Ford's "Drama of Transportation," depicting the development of wheeled vehicles from i.he chariots of ancient Egyptian Egypt-ian kings to modern motor cars. Every model of Ford car made since 1903 will be Included. In the smaller building to the left will be housed some of the priceless historic exhibits from the Edison Institute at Dearborn, Mich., Including Includ-ing the one-story brick workshop, complete with the original tools, where Mr. Ford in 1S93 built with his own hands his first motor car. This first car will be displayed Inside In-side the shop. The main exposition building will I Henry Ford and Edsel B. Ford show to Rufus C. Dawes (center), presl- , dent of the World' Fair, the scale model of the giant Ford Exposition building to be built at the 1934 Fair. (Lower) The Ford building as it . will be seen from Leif Erlksen drive. Opposite the building will bt , huge park bordering Lake Michigan. display an imposing array of exhibits, ex-hibits, most of them in action, show how steel, aluminum and other metals, soy beans, corn, wool, cotton cot-ton and other farm products and the products of myriad Industries are converted into car parts. The building also will house displays of cars and a big movie theater. Alougl the east side will be an opon-alr baH cony equipped with chairs and) lounges where hundreds may relas-l Across the drive fronting the laWj will be a big Ford Park, beautifully, landscaped and also fitted with seat' and other comforts for fair crowd |
