Vintage automobile factories

Yeah, little different then what we would expect to see today.

 

If somebody were to play a practical joke, by mixing up a Buick and Pontiac with each other's parts, those would be two of the most pricey collector's items today. I wonder as to how long it had taken, before someone actually did that and the cars began thereafter getting assembled in their respective Flint and Pontiac Michigan plants

Sean Penn's dad there was pretty tough, being one of the few who made it a point to not wear a mask. It wouldn't be surprising, if he contracted early emphisema. Very impressive, he was

 

I think the tattoo on his left bicep is a sign of just how tough he really was.

 

Nowadays, people who don't get tattoos are the ones who want to be different. That one painting those cars obviously learnt how to paint them, from first practicing on painting the license plates from the institution from where he got that tattoo

 

51ers dancing the Body Drop

 

All of these gorgeous models in the plant proved to be too much for quality control manager Niles Bellingham. Here Mr. Bellingham is seen power hurling on the dash board of an otherwise lovely black Crown coupe. It was the cheapest car he could find coming down the line at the time.

 

'Niles Bellingham." Haha, he was teased in high school, when the girls disparagingly called him "Bellinghell."

 

I think the boys also called him Nelly-Belly. Little did they know he would become on of Novi’s most fussy confirmed batchlers.

 

Construction of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Complex began in 1917 and when finally completed 1928 it was the largest factory in the world. Henry Ford and Company had built a state of the art facility that not only manufactured cars and trucks but also processed the majority of the raw materials necessary to build these vehicles on site.

In addition, iron ore, coal, and lumber from Ford-owned off site properties were shipped to the River Rouge with the Company’s own transportation network of boats and trains. Learn more about the River Rouge Complex at The Henry Ford, the source of the photos in this series.

Image taken on November 25, 1935, contains Ford workers polishing pressed steel 1936 radiator grilles. The surface preparation process was performed on heavy-duty buffing and polishing machines before and during the chrome plating process.


Horizontal milling machine and operator guided by a tracing attachment and pattern (top) in the Tool and Die Shop on January 10, 1939 machines one half of roof pressing die from a block of steel.



1934 Ford V-8 engine and transmission assembly being lowered into a chassis by workers.



Henry Ford II diesel-powered freighter which was in operation between 1924 and 1988 hauling iron ore and coal. The boat which was a part of the Ford Marine Division is seen being towed while passing through a draw bridge at the complex.


Courtesy of The Old Motor.

 

A pair of Buicks and a Pontiac being run on the test “rolls” at the end of the assembly line.

 

This looks like a publicity shot, with the car on the right posed in front of finished cars coming off of the line.

 

A 1962 Pontiac being tested on the “rolls” at the end of the Wilmington, Delaware assembly line.

 

Assembly line workers install trim around the windows, and (below) the coachwork onto the chassis at the body drop station.