passed to me by a friend

https://jniolon.classicpickup.com/ford.pdf

 

Very cool John!
Thanks for sharing. The spec sheet (page 24) is really interesting

Bobby

 

Wow that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen about Ford. Thank you very much for posting it.

 

Amazing! OSHA would have a field day with all the dangerous open belts and other unsafe machinery. The open knife switches in the power house are scary as well. I wonder if the accident rates were as impressive as the auto production. Very cool, THANKS!

 

Very cool. Thanks for sharing

 

What I was thinking too. I bet the Ford "hospital" had plenty of patients.
Very cool site, amazing technology for the time.

 

 

Those are really cool John! Thanks for sharing that!

 

That was interesting reading material. Thanks,
Grant

 

Beautiful photo work. I'll take the cameraman's job....

 

Wow! Those are great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

I like the pictures of the shops with all the belt drives. The Ford plant here in Northville made valves. The plant is still standing and is a historic landmark along with the water wheel and the millrace. But none of the equipment still exists inside the plant. It contains offices and a gym.

We have always liked to go to the Hagley Museum in Delaware. All the equipment in the machine shop still run on belts and are water powered through an amazing series if millraces with water coming from the Brandywine River. If you have never been there it is worth seeing.