| Show miles of conveyors in ford 11 0 A 4 0 this picture shows two types of conveyors in use in the roune house plant of the ford motor company AN ENDLESS chain conveyor AN aft three and a half to four mil 1 3 long said to be the 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 cars in the process of manufacture are transported from one building to another and completed parts are carried direct to railroad cars for shipment to branch assembly plants the conveyor which carries its cargo on suspended hooks has a dally daily capacity tor for parts weighing over pounds it supplants freight cars and trucks which have been used tor 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 manufacturing fac turing career mr ford devised the assembly line a moving track trach on which cars in the process of a ts s went to the workmen instead of the workmen carrying parts to the car the assembly line perfected in many ways Is now used by automobile manufacturers gen orally the value of the conveyor in re physical labor in saina time in preserving system and in cutting costs soon became apparent and its use was extended to othe purposes about the plant now there are literally miles of convoy convey ors of various types in the ford plant some of them carry parts from one building to another and are carefully synchronized so that the parts arrive at precisely the right moment and in the exact spot where they are needed others transport red hot ingots ingols of steel weighing nearly a ton each still others move outgoing shipments if it were not for the convey con veyo ms s according to officials of the ford company mass pio pi production would not be possible on its present scale |
