All a man needed was a desire to work and he could raise a family. This was the golden age of america. We could do this again, bring our manufacturing home.
It starts with a physical understanding of the difference between a million and a billion.. The rich have socialized the losses and privatized the profits!! the 9%-14% increase in wages it would take to stimulate the economy would only cost the rich millions. Instead we let state and local government give business billions in subsidized business perks that take away from everything it takes to get ahead it's not sustainable we the people are drained dry!
@scott offord your right and if everyone else did this it would help but the real problem is American corporations are given incentive to pull up without any tax penalties, tear down the old factory at the expense of the tax payers and retrain and educate the workforce at tax payer expense then sell off the brownfield property and walk away with little or no taxes paid by the owner of the property! Then 6 months later the new owner gets a huge tax rebate for redevelopment at the expense of the local property owners? It's not a sustainable future for anyone in America the rich must pay more we are dried out.
My Dad worked at the casting plant from when it was built till he retired running a overhead sand train delivering core sand.He was proud of his factory and company. Iam proud of what he did for us coming home covered with salt from sweating his butt off. He made good friends the families all camped together and they all had new cars . We need manufacturing back tell the tree huggers to plant a tree.
Your grandfather must have had steady nerves and no fear. I can think of many reasons I would not climb into that contraption with a tank of molten metal a few inches away.
I worked in the foundry and engine plant #1 from 1976-1983. The work was numbing: Hot, dirty, and dangerous. I'm now a professor of industrial-organizational psychology and show this film to my students. Helps them appreciate what work is and helps me appreciate the kind of work I do now. Best thing about working for Ford was the tuition reimbursement program that got me through college (B-W) and into grad school.
My first day on the line after safety training, I walked down the aisle of 3 Mold line and said out loud "What in the hell did I get myself into". At that point I had been a warehouse manager and an over the road truck driver. I was no greenhorn. My dad worked right across on 5 Core line. I got sent over there one day. I didn't like it at all. So much work.
@@bluegtturbo There was no stinkin' air conditioning. Summer temps were well into triple digits. By air con, I think the video is referring to regular fans, which were very effective at blowing around the sand and dirt that was everywhere 🙃
is nice to see and remember when I was working also in Ford starting at the age of 18 and learn so many things this video is a nice journey in to the past
Unions take a lot of heat some justified but back then when they were strong the middle class in this country was strong. All that money that blue-collar workers don't make anymore has just gone straight into the pockets of the rich who control much more of America's wealth than they did back then
That was what the Unions achieved. This all worked until someone discovered that the same work can be done in Communist China for less. Increases shareholder value.
My grandfather's 1932 Allis-Chalmers tractor - 6cyl engine with hand crank to start on front-end had a glass fuel bowl. It originally had steel rear wheels with spikes for traction. Was a real tough tractor!
Some old engines like this (like my GM 216) also had glass bowls on the fuel pump too, kinda neat and lets you know if its actually getting fuel or not.
Man, those glass float bowl covers were awesome. I had a '52 2dr Customline 215cid 6cyl w/ 3spd manual that had the glass float bowl Holley 1bbl carburetor. In the summer of 1985 I was traveling on a Sunday in southern Iowa when the engine started running rich, then so rich it was belching black smoke out the tailpipe. . Suspecting the needle valve had stuck open, I managed to make it to the junkyard in Cincinnati, IA. I stopped in the lot out front and raised the hood to check things out. The glass float bowl cover showed that the float bowl was chock full of gas and also was being pushed through the carb into the intake manifold from the fuel pump pressure remaining. But-- thanks to the glass float bowl cover-- I could see that the float itself was the culprit, being in the down position instead of up high to close the needle valve. . The salvage yard was closed, but the door to the building was open. Inside was a sort of work area, so I pulled the carburetor off the engine and carefully removed the glass cover without tearing the cork gasket. The float proved to have a tiny hole in the soldered joint. I wandered around in the yard until I found a '54 F1 with an identical carburetor, got the float out of it, put it into my carb and got it all back together and back on my Customline. A few cranks on the engine to clear the flooded condition and it fired right up! . I left a $20 bill on the counter for the carburetor along with a note explaining what had happened and that I'd call to see if I owed any more money the next week during normal business hours. I did call several times, but nobody ever answered the phone. So, Mr. Kirby-- owner of the salvage yard while you were alive-- please send me a sign from Heaven if I owe anything more for that float, please.
My father and I both worked those plants and retired from there. The castings weren't hot at all when leaving the foundry for the engine plants (1 & 2). And not all the chipper/grinder jobs were automated. Most were done by hand with small pneumatic " jack hammer" like air chisels. Done all the jobs shown and then some in my 31 years there in Brookpark. Dad started there in '51 when the foundry was completed. I came along in June '76. And that foundry was hot and dirty. It was like working inside a muffler when the plant was in full swing. Especially in the basement where we shook the red-hot parts out into these long buckets to go to the hot lines to be sorted.
I agree with you I did it too and is true not everything was automated was a very good experience also good experience for life as no many people has this opportunity to do it
I have a 1970 Boss. I hauled around since I was 21 and put it in my Ac Cobra replica I built . They were great engines killed by the 1973 gas crunch by the Middle east. Thank God we arent dependant on those jerks anymore.
I worked on the 351C engines. Was specially chosen of a 5-6 man crew in the foundry to work on the 429 shotgun engine parts we did special for the racers. Including Gap & Rouch.
@@PatriotPaulUSA 1973 was a very bad time - the oil shortage caused by OPEC quadrupled gas prices - caused unreal inflation in US for the next 10 years. I'm concerned what are we gonna do when the petroleum runs out? We're burning it like there's no tomorrow - people have forgotten the 1973 oil embargo - it was a warning shot across the bow.
It really is sad to drive on I-71 through Brookpark and not see that glorious plant. I’ve live in Cleveland all my life and I will never resign to loss of factory work and manufacturing jobs. It shouldn’t have been this way. Our politicians have no skin in the game. They in no way can relate to the rest of us.
believe were in the end days of america as a gen of us knew it. sad that these younger folks thinks this is pretty much normal. internet started its downfall. young folk dont see how is doing it. they just wanna go viral. im 65 thank god. good luck.
One of the largest buildings I’ve ever been in. Walking from the classrooms to the cafeteria, you could not see an exit door and had no idea the best or closest way out.
I know when I started there, I would follow people.... and the whole time I was there (I was a summer worker) people were showing me new places. My dad had worked with a lot of people and had been a relief man for a number of years, so I did get a favor here and there. Don't get me wrong..... I came out of there at the end of the day soaked with sweat and exhausted. I mostly worked up on the iron furnace, which was actually a good (higher seniority) job.
My Father-in-law started there in 1953 and I started in 1972. We both retired from the foundry. They since have tore it down, now just an empty lot :( :(.
I was hoping I’d catch a glimpse of my grandfather in this video. He made a career at this plant, only leaving to serve in the Navy during WWII. He worked in plant maintenance, installing, servicing, and repairing the machines.
@@bretc9644 It could be that he worked at the Tank Plant before leaving to fight in the war then got hired on at Ford after he got back. By that time in the mid-fifties production at the Tank Plant was slowing and the engine plant opened and was hiring everyone they could. My Dad got hired away from his job working for the Nickal Plate RR by Ford and worked his entire career in the Traffic Dept. at the engine plant, moving and scheduling railcars and truck deliveries.
This video is awsome demonstrates when people could actually work without automation for simple tasks everyone made good living, now days you have more automation doing basic tasks. They should limit the automation used to allow people to make money for there families.
Actually completed & released a bit earlier; 1953 Ohio license plates are seen, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer indicates public showing (local Kiwanis) in September 1953. Rough outline: Begins with establishing factory-exterior shots (not the featured Ford plants); Title at 1:00, then workers going into Ford's new Engine Plant #1 in Brook Park (OH). After a few minutes there, to the new Cleveland Casting Plant next door, to see sand used to make cores, and (7:20-11:45) scrap iron melted and eventually poured. After 13:00 the hot castings are transported to the Engine Plant, where most of the rest of the film takes place (machining and engine assembly).
My grandfather started there in '53. They must have shut down the plant and let it air out, then restarted for the movie. The air was barely that clear when I worked there in 2000 (I worked primarily on 3 Mold Line as a furnace operator. My job was to keep the molten iron at 2700*F +/- 30*F).
Ford is a major US automaker named after Henry Ford who is generally credited for implementing the “assembly line” method of delivering large numbers of automobiles to the public at a relatively affordable price.
Some history correction is necessary...... Ford didn't implement or INVENT the assembly line!!!! It already existed but he improved it by making it move. Before the assembly line was stationary and the workers moved to the product to perform a certin task not a very efficient way to mfg products. So Ford reversed the process by moving the product and each person was stationary and performed one function greatly improving production with fewer defects.
I remember how proud I was because of the 351 Cleveland engine, and I also am reminded how difficult it was for a black man to get work in the fifties when the USA was great. The truth is after ww2 we prospered as most of the worlds economies were devastated. I love this country and when we are United and innovative we are beyond compare.
The Engine to my 1976 Mercury Cougar was produced in those plants. It was a 351. I got a 145 k miles out of it before I traded in the car for an 82 Ford Ganada with a 200 ci 6 cylinger.
A time when the country moved on Cleveland Iron... now that foundry is leveled and just a field again. All those jobs gone from Cleveland, once "The Best Location In the Nation!"
Many of those guys are World War 2 veterans, surviving one hell hole to go into another. That foundry took its last victim just weeks before it was closed down. My Farher nearly died in engine plant 1 when he was badly burned in a hot test accident.
Brookpark...I used to work off of 9th St and Huron in downtown, right down the street from the INDIANS stadium, Jacobs Field, and I lived in Westlake...where is Brookpark? Is it by the Tremont area, or out past 117th St? I moved from Westlake to Juneau, Alaska in '02, and I can't seem to remember where Brookpark is...
stlwtr2011 ....oh yeah...I used to work off of Miles Rd in Warrensville Heights, off of 480, so comin from Westlake, I'd have driven thru Brookpark every day, right? My memory ain't what it once was, 48yrs old and this gettin older s**t sucks....lol
Them days are long gone people think this dirty shitty work but all them men women got retirement and health care now no one wants to Do anything this is what maid u.s grate now no every one wants everything esey and free
..... If they only knew that in the future, "Automation" would cost 80% of that Proud Workforce their JOBS, forever. At least those that stayed in the U.S. .... China now has our Former economy.
The price of NAFT! Ford moved its Cast IRON plant to Mexico! Just so old Billy Ford and his Family could make more... Yes, Ford still uses Cast IRON in it truck blocks but they are Mexican Blocks. All the metal of the Cleveland Casting Plant was shipped to China. Sad!
Yeah, I was just looking online at a 2020 Dodge 2 door pick up w 4WD almost everything is made in Mexico, still cost almost 40 grand with a HEMI though
Their still making motor at that plant till this day. And all automakers and just about every company in this country go for the cheap labor. and both parties sold us out and still are. They like 50 cents a hr pay. But still sell it here for top dollar. Greed is killing this great country. big business and the rich have both parties bought out.
InfiniteMushroom Agree with most of what you have written. For sure about Reagan he pretty much killed the middle class in this country but so many love him and still do. He changed everything when it came to how companies treated there employees told them it was ok to treat them like shit. And many did. Am still waiting for the crumbs to fall to me. And man have these people fallen for the orange clown the conman
The EPA is so insane on manufacturers Iron casting is almost non existent in the USA! Its a dirty process with lots of exhaust gas the crying leftists have made the pollution laws so strict its ridiculous. Ford probably had no choice but to move it to a foriegn country. They used to do other non automotive Iron castings by me in the 80s and that plant is long gone. Thanks to political nonsense.
@@PatriotPaulUSA Oh I know only democrat had a hand in it. Where were the republicans at all that time. Maybe the government did go to far but than trump went to far the other way and didn’t even think about the damage that might come from it. Do we have the trillions of dollars to clean up what in the ground already in this country from companies that just didn’t care what they were doing to the environment or to the people that work at them companies and who going to pay for it us. Their probably is land in just about every city that is unusable polluted and cost millions to clean up. If the companies did things the right way at the beginning we wouldn’t of needed the government to get involved. And Trump doesn’t even think about it or care about it. Got to find the middle both parties are guilty. Am old enough to seen what was going on in the old days. The EPA hasn’t had any power for yrs now both parties took it from them you got to be a real screw up for them to get involved these days in business. Most cities are responsible for protecting themselves from polluters these days they don’t want to be left with having to spend millions to clean it up. Because are government let the companies off from them paying for it and put it on the tax payers to pay for it and your talking trillions is Trump going to give the city the money to clean it up no. They were protecting the workers and the environment don’t be a fool. How old are you. The little city I live in acres of land that just sits going to waste because it will take millions to clean up. And that is happening all over the place.
This I can imagine when retirement came what a beauty man being in your home paid for and you can stay in your neighborhood neighborhood wasn't being sold out priced out will you ended up with other fellas that will still working and then something changed 1980 it started
I am absolutely in awe of this production facility. The people who sat down to design the processes need more than a knighthood. Next to mention are those people who designed and built the machines to make the products. I often wonder if there is only a handful of people in such a major plant that know every part and procedure in the place. America at this time was the world leader in volume manufacturing. I would have given a left testicle to be able to have free reign to wander around a place like this. Anyone want to come along?
14:08 A sneak peak at Ford's new OHV V-8. Never quite gained the fame of Chevy's V-8 which came out in '55. BTW, I worked in both cupola and arc foundries (ag industry). Don't be fooled, there was plenty of hard work. Sweeping with a broom, striking off molds with a sharp piece of angle iron, pouring molten iron (two-man), clamping and unclamping molds with a hammer; and did I mention shoveling oily sand from machine pits? Oh, and that sand muller. We had to lock it out and crawl in it and chip out the crusty sand before shift start-up. How about shoveling fly-ash off the roof of the foundry? Yep, did that too. As the years went by I shipped castings, scheduled castings, methodized castings, did statistical quality control on the castings, and maintained the specification data base of the castings. Retired as a technical author of the final product. Great times. Hard work. Lots of overtime. Young guys buying brand new cars. I think a lot of the young folks today want to sit at a desk and screw around with a computer and skip the work phase. Just my opinion. And the air could be bad, so we wore a respirator. No big deal. I chuckled at all the guys in the vid smoking in the foundry. They put an end to that around 1986. I never smoked. I hope every man and woman who worked those jobs has a happy retirement; they deserve it. Thanks for letting me share a few thoughts.
A very, very different America 70 years ago. They sure didn't put up with any "DEI" in those days or "pride week" transgender celebrations, or "drag queen reading hour" for their children. America has gone to hell in a hand basket since this was filmed. It truly was the "Greatest Generation". They would have never allowed progressive marxism to overtake industry, life, and education like today. America's best years are 70 years behind us, just as this film illustrates. Everything these hardworking men and women did for our country, has all been handed over to incompetent, communist, power-hungry demons who are hellbent on the complete destruction of the American Way of Life. 😢
Well they were cast in Cleveland, at least the later ones, We cast the 5.0L Explorer blocks on 2 Mold line in Cleveland.... You can look on any Ford casting, and it will say where it is cast. CF or CCP is Cleveland. There was also a casting plant in Michigan... Michigan Casting Center?, and Windsor Casting. Things moved around over the years.... Casting in particular is easy to move. Plants bid against each other for contracts.
The EPA had a big part in Industry moving to Mexico the rules are so stringent did the cost becomes prohibitive and the only place that will be reasonable is Mexico
@@johnrose954 Germany has significant air pollution and not to mention their rivers. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-09/the-super-polluted-rhine-washes-191-million-microplastic-particles-out-to-sea-every-day
@@TTR83 Taimo, 5 year old article. Point is, cleaner environment does not negate industry. Even "dirty" industries can be profitable and clean up after themselves. You just can't trust them to do it themselves.
Poor, little baby, go and suck your thumb. You are a poorly-informed, misanthropic whiner. I am fairly certain that you goldbricked your entire work-life. "The boss is coming! Try to look like you are working on something!"
As people forget; the industrial power of America was prompted to reinvest in workers and production to avoid the 65% tax. The monies collected paid for the interstate highway systems, the education of returning ww2 veterans and balancing the national budget. Industry decided to offshore production to use cheaper workers, decreasing America’s middle class. We do need to return work to America.
The price of gas was always to cheap here .You can see only 6's and 8''s no 4's .We lost the oversea's market's by 1960 and were dependent on Arab oil by 1970.
This is when you knew someone whether they were good for you or not but you would know and make a decision because you will see this person they were part of your group on live nearby where you live you can decide hey I like them I don't like them or whatever but you knew each other they called each other by name
You fellas are exactly right that's what happened each man gladly went to work and not only that they enjoy their work as hard as it was it was worth it you had a family back home waiting looking up to you you made enough in one income I remember my father used to make 68.00 weak with that this in New York City we had an apartment three bedroom the bills gas bills you will see them every 3 months barely electric was like $10 dollars sometimes I listen to my father's day did the gas company come and it was April or something and they will show up in April and there was still snow sometime and all that heat from the gas company it was a simple bill barely $30 what happened to us I'll tell you what technology they were warned about all this that was going to happen with technology the deterioration of human beings the disconnection
I was a member of the same Union as these workers. United Automobile Workers of America. During my 35 years of employment, the Union went on strike 3 times. We never struck for higher pay..But that's all the news media hammered on at how much money we made and we wanted more. Learn what working at Ford was like before Unionization. You can make America Great Again, Vote Democrat, Vote Union.
Guys and Gals, tariffs are not paid by the exporter or the country that exports, it is paid by YOU, the customer, nobody else. All that tariffs do, is make absolutely everything more expensive immediately. Prepare to walk, not drive in the Trump future you so long for. And don't ever forget how much 'foreign' stuff is in your so called American car, again you are walking not driving anymore. Parts will cost astronomical.
Perhaps you should brush up on your geography. Cleveland isn’t anywhere near the Great Lakes and if you listened you would’ve heard that all the water was recycled and continually reused.
@@prevost8686 I grew up there. All through the 70's and 80's. Had a boat on Lake Erie. All of the steel and auto manufacturers, pumped into the Cuyahoga river. At that time the Lake was pretty nasty. It's cleaned up now. Mainly because most of the industry left.
Brook park is south of Cleveland bye about 10 miles the castings were sent to the assembly plant in brook park and how do you see that Cleveland isn't anywhere near the great lakes it sets on the shore of one of the great lakes
I had a 1940 flat head a 1958 y block great 64 289 67 240 74 240 80 400m a crappy 84 460 made by standard oil 2007 2.3l 2008 5.4 l what adds apposite ment drop the liter go back to cc like my 1970 351 w Make american america again your all messed up w foreign design take the FE and Windsor in ject them maybe ohc American iron was what henery was a bout for get Mexico north America I ve never been so disappoint as2008 s d you can do better I remember a basic training no extreme thrills but was reliable you old quaility 1 you for got it thank you
We almost have how many things do you see made in America not many. But they are leaving China and just going to other third world countries nothing has changed. It all greed.
I have a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2 V-8 for a winter vehicle and when changing my trans. fluid with the MOPAR factory dealership filter, fluid and gasket I noticed the filter was made in either China or Mexico, truly SHAMEFUL
I REALLY loved the footage and processes. However, the presentation was especially snarky, and I was VERY disappointed at how only the 'white men' were noted and mentioned by name. 1954 USA.... :/
What? White men? all these guys worked in the same conditions regardless of skin color. In case you're no aware the mass majority of the American work force was white back then it had nothing to do with racism. It's a fact of percentages. The mass majority of America was white. Not a very big black population in the US then. The fact that no black workers are shown is because there wasn't very many there. Take a look at the men getting off the bus for example. Besides the video isn't about how many minority workers they had, it's about the manufacturing process.
My father, my mother, my brother, my uncle, and my cousin all worked at the Cleveland Engine Plant. I could have worked there if I wanted to but I made more money than an autoworker and didn;t want to take the cut in pay.
You need to learn some history. Ford Motor Company was a basic slavery plant before the Union. Workers would be beaten by Ford's Goons. Sure Ford paid 5 dollars a day, he had to to get workers. As punishment for a department the Goons would increase the speed of the assembly line. If you couldn't keep up, you were fired. I worked with some of those guys who were there and at General Motors during Union negotiations. I worked with a couple who witness shootings and beatings by Police and company goons killed 7 (I think) workers. Michigan governors, Republican, supported the companies, sent in the National Guard to attack the workers and return control to the plant owners. Democrats have always championed Unions. Barack O'bama would not cross a Union picket line to some interview. The Republican candidates did. All major legislation concerning Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were passed by Democratic administrations. The worst Depression the US has ever seen was under Herbert Hoover, Republican. He didn't believe it was the governments responsibility to help people. People starved to death. You don't have universal health care because of Republicans. The US ranks number one in the western world for health costs and number 17 in quality of care. Yes the good ol'days of Democrats and Labor Unions, negotiated health insurance, sick leave , a decent living wage for everyone. I'm 81 years old and I worked in non=union shops. Heat treating and foundry. Then I joined a Uniionized company. My Dad was a Union worker, when he was able to work. He was a disabled WWII vet. My Grandmother, a Union Widow (coal miner) drew more pension from the Union than the state paid out as Old Age Assistance. That was a state funded program in Democrat states to keep old people from starving to death. United Mine Workers of America The Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators The United Auto Workers of America Make America Great Again. Vote Democrat, Vote Union. I''m 81 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I made a man's pay for a days work. But I knew how. My Dad was union and taught me the value of working, but also the value of a days work, and the value of getting paid a living wage. I was there. I know what I am talking about. I am amazed at how the rich Republicans have convinced half of the American people that it's great to be poor, that it's good to not to have decent health insurance, it's great to not have a living wage, help companies move manufacturing to China. It''s noble to cut taxes for the wealthy then coins will trickle down to the workers.
Without sand you couldn't have an engine....no longer true. Now you can investment cast engine blocks also. Had to laugh, a pure white crew in Cleveland Ohio....now a days try and find a white man in Cleveland.
@@rastapete100 while I'm sure some racism existed most of it was a case of if you have little to no education or technical skills you arn't getting hired. That hasn't changed through the present day and it has nothing to do with race.
@@StonesAndSand Still a sand like material but refined down to an almost flour like grain size. Not near as course as green or red casting sand. That is why the finish is so much smoother.
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All a man needed was a desire to work and he could raise a family. This was the golden age of america. We could do this again, bring our manufacturing home.
Demoncrats want us to be Chinese slave laborers, and passive subjects of socialism.
A nation that does not manufacture a product will not survive! Goodbye USA!
Made in America and Great
It starts with a physical understanding of the difference between a million and a billion..
The rich have socialized the losses and privatized the profits!! the 9%-14% increase in wages it would take to stimulate the economy would only cost the rich millions.
Instead we let state and local government give business billions in subsidized business perks that take away from everything it takes to get ahead it's not sustainable we the people are drained dry!
@scott offord your right and if everyone else did this it would help but the real problem is American corporations are given incentive to pull up without any tax penalties, tear down the old factory at the expense of the tax payers and retrain and educate the workforce at tax payer expense then sell off the brownfield property and walk away with little or no taxes paid by the owner of the property!
Then 6 months later the new owner gets a huge tax rebate for redevelopment at the expense of the local property owners?
It's not a sustainable future for anyone in America the rich must pay more we are dried out.
Cleveland Proud!! My uncle delivered and picked up thousands of parts from there, as a truck driver.
My Dad worked at the casting plant from when it was built till he retired running a overhead sand train delivering core sand.He was proud of his factory and company. Iam proud of what he did for us coming home covered with salt from sweating his butt off. He made good friends the families all camped together and they all had new cars . We need manufacturing back tell the tree huggers to plant a tree.
@@gregpaszt4671You should be proud brother! Your father & millions like him made this country what it is.
That’s my grandfather at @9:00 never met him but I carry his ID in my wallet daily.
That's amazing man . Be proud
Did he die of lung disease?
Amazing how hard working Americans used to be.
@@gkess7106 What an asnine thing to say
Your grandfather must have had steady nerves and no fear. I can think of many reasons I would not climb into that contraption with a tank of molten metal a few inches away.
I worked in the foundry and engine plant #1 from 1976-1983. The work was numbing: Hot, dirty, and dangerous. I'm now a professor of industrial-organizational psychology and show this film to my students. Helps them appreciate what work is and helps me appreciate the kind of work I do now. Best thing about working for Ford was the tuition reimbursement program that got me through college (B-W) and into grad school.
My first day on the line after safety training, I walked down the aisle of 3 Mold line and said out loud "What in the hell did I get myself into". At that point I had been a warehouse manager and an over the road truck driver. I was no greenhorn. My dad worked right across on 5 Core line. I got sent over there one day. I didn't like it at all. So much work.
Wait what?! It was the most modern in the world, with aircon, a canteen just a step away, and even shower rooms... 😂
@@bluegtturbo There was no stinkin' air conditioning. Summer temps were well into triple digits. By air con, I think the video is referring to regular fans, which were very effective at blowing around the sand and dirt that was everywhere 🙃
Knowing how Mr Ford felt about race this film was quite a fabrication
Very Cool to see how these engines were built back in the day, Im glad I can watch
is nice to see and remember when I was working also in Ford starting at the age of 18 and learn so many things this video is a nice journey in to the past
One man, one income, making enough to support his wife and children; so that, his wife doesn't have to work outside the home.
Those were the days....not any more!
Unions take a lot of heat some justified but back then when they were strong the middle class in this country was strong. All that money that blue-collar workers don't make anymore has just gone straight into the pockets of the rich who control much more of America's wealth than they did back then
Peak America. Never again.
That was what the Unions achieved. This all worked until someone discovered that the same work can be done in Communist China for less. Increases shareholder value.
@@calbob750 and China doesn't have ridiculously overpriced healthcare insurance....
Ye- Haw, Who noticed the 6 cyl. Holly carb. has a clear glass float bowl?
My grandfather's 1932 Allis-Chalmers tractor - 6cyl engine with hand crank to start on front-end had a glass fuel bowl. It originally had steel rear wheels with spikes for traction. Was a real tough tractor!
Yep. I did a couple videos rebuilding a Glass bowl Holley that was originally built in this approximate time-frame.
Some old engines like this (like my GM 216) also had glass bowls on the fuel pump too, kinda neat and lets you know if its actually getting fuel or not.
Man, those glass float bowl covers were awesome. I had a '52 2dr Customline 215cid 6cyl w/ 3spd manual that had the glass float bowl Holley 1bbl carburetor. In the summer of 1985 I was traveling on a Sunday in southern Iowa when the engine started running rich, then so rich it was belching black smoke out the tailpipe.
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Suspecting the needle valve had stuck open, I managed to make it to the junkyard in Cincinnati, IA. I stopped in the lot out front and raised the hood to check things out. The glass float bowl cover showed that the float bowl was chock full of gas and also was being pushed through the carb into the intake manifold from the fuel pump pressure remaining. But-- thanks to the glass float bowl cover-- I could see that the float itself was the culprit, being in the down position instead of up high to close the needle valve.
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The salvage yard was closed, but the door to the building was open. Inside was a sort of work area, so I pulled the carburetor off the engine and carefully removed the glass cover without tearing the cork gasket. The float proved to have a tiny hole in the soldered joint. I wandered around in the yard until I found a '54 F1 with an identical carburetor, got the float out of it, put it into my carb and got it all back together and back on my Customline. A few cranks on the engine to clear the flooded condition and it fired right up!
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I left a $20 bill on the counter for the carburetor along with a note explaining what had happened and that I'd call to see if I owed any more money the next week during normal business hours. I did call several times, but nobody ever answered the phone. So, Mr. Kirby-- owner of the salvage yard while you were alive-- please send me a sign from Heaven if I owe anything more for that float, please.
Hehe, I noticed that too!
My father and I both worked those plants and retired from there. The castings weren't hot at all when leaving the foundry for the engine plants (1 & 2). And not all the chipper/grinder jobs were automated. Most were done by hand with small pneumatic " jack hammer" like air chisels. Done all the jobs shown and then some in my 31 years there in Brookpark. Dad started there in '51 when the foundry was completed. I came along in June '76. And that foundry was hot and dirty. It was like working inside a muffler when the plant was in full swing. Especially in the basement where we shook the red-hot parts out into these long buckets to go to the hot lines to be sorted.
Thankyou for sharing your story. I have a 1977 LTD II with the 302 it is great car. I also just picked up a 1977 Lincoln Continental Town Car 460.
Sir, did you meet John Demjanjuk ?
I grew up on Forestwood, you sound to be MY dad's age, there is a pond or something in the first 30 seconds of the video I can't make out what it is
@@h1jen1x Looks like part of Lake Erie over by CEI to me? No ponds around Ford in Brookpark.
I agree with you I did it too and is true not everything was automated was a very good experience also good experience for life as no many people has this opportunity to do it
later in the '60's the Ford Cleveland engine plant did the renowned 351C and Boss 302 engines. Still cranking engines out today.
I have a 1970 Boss. I hauled around since I was 21 and put it in my Ac Cobra replica I built . They were great engines killed by the 1973 gas crunch by the Middle east. Thank God we arent dependant on those jerks anymore.
I worked on the 351C engines. Was specially chosen of a 5-6 man crew in the foundry to work on the 429 shotgun engine parts we did special for the racers. Including Gap & Rouch.
@@PatriotPaulUSA 1973 was a very bad time - the oil shortage caused by OPEC quadrupled gas prices - caused unreal inflation in US for the next 10 years. I'm concerned what are we gonna do when the petroleum runs out? We're burning it like there's no tomorrow - people have forgotten the 1973 oil embargo - it was a warning shot across the bow.
351C!!!!!
They made 351 Cleveland's in Australia at Geelong. Fantastic engine.
i live on Engle rd sad how empty the parking lots are today
Drive by there every day and think the same thing
I felt sorry for the worker who lived in East Cleveland.😬 I live on E 105th St.
@@jrt2792 i grew up on 116th and Harvard
It really is sad to drive on I-71 through Brookpark and not see that glorious plant. I’ve live in Cleveland all my life and I will never resign to loss of factory work and manufacturing jobs. It shouldn’t have been this way. Our politicians have no skin in the game. They in no way can relate to the rest of us.
Ahhhh the days of leaded gasoline and grandfather oiling the ol dirt road with used 30W ....... damn those were the days.
I lived in Brookpark at 6496 Claudia Dr. from 1959 to 1965. They used to dump the casting sand next to our house at the end of our street.
Thank you for this gem 👍
Sad to see how things changed...... it was real.....actually working men.. working for a living....God Bless America......We're Gonna Need it
believe were in the end days of america as a gen of us knew it. sad that these younger folks thinks this is pretty much normal. internet started its downfall. young folk dont see how is doing it. they just wanna go viral. im 65 thank god. good luck.
Amen🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
One of the largest buildings I’ve ever been in. Walking from the classrooms to the cafeteria, you could not see an exit door and had no idea the best or closest way out.
I know when I started there, I would follow people.... and the whole time I was there (I was a summer worker) people were showing me new places. My dad had worked with a lot of people and had been a relief man for a number of years, so I did get a favor here and there. Don't get me wrong..... I came out of there at the end of the day soaked with sweat and exhausted. I mostly worked up on the iron furnace, which was actually a good (higher seniority) job.
My Father-in-law started there in 1953 and I started in 1972. We both retired from the foundry. They since have tore it down, now just an empty lot :( :(.
The introduction of the yblock. I have one in my 58’ f100.
I was hoping I’d catch a glimpse of my grandfather in this video. He made a career at this plant, only leaving to serve in the Navy during WWII. He worked in plant maintenance, installing, servicing, and repairing the machines.
Men like our grandfathers shaped this nation . Cheers to u and yours bud
The Cleveland Engine Plant was built after the war.
You might be thinking of the Tank Plant.
@@iknklst that turned into oow ? I have a rifle made by them . That's awesome history
@@iknklst Could be, I just assumed it was all the same plant. Thnx.
@@bretc9644 It could be that he worked at the Tank Plant before leaving to fight in the war then got hired on at Ford after he got back.
By that time in the mid-fifties production at the Tank Plant was slowing and the engine plant opened and was hiring everyone they could.
My Dad got hired away from his job working for the Nickal Plate RR by Ford and worked his entire career in the Traffic Dept. at the engine plant, moving and scheduling railcars and truck deliveries.
We should make EVERYTHING here at home.....again.
CEP 1 Retired. 216 nation. Beast Men. 👊💪🇺🇸
Engines that would run for ever.
In this video, what would be the cubic inch of the 6 cylinder, 226 or 215? Great video presentation. Thank you.
As hard as a brides biscuit .never heard that one before.
maybe a brides muffin. never heard of a biscuit.
This video is awsome demonstrates when people could actually work without automation for simple tasks everyone made good living, now days you have more automation doing basic tasks. They should limit the automation used to allow people to make money for there families.
Actually completed & released a bit earlier; 1953 Ohio license plates are seen, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer indicates public showing (local Kiwanis) in September 1953. Rough outline: Begins with establishing factory-exterior shots (not the featured Ford plants); Title at 1:00, then workers going into Ford's new Engine Plant #1 in Brook Park (OH). After a few minutes there, to the new Cleveland Casting Plant next door, to see sand used to make cores, and (7:20-11:45) scrap iron melted and eventually poured. After 13:00 the hot castings are transported to the Engine Plant, where most of the rest of the film takes place (machining and engine assembly).
My grandfather started there in '53. They must have shut down the plant and let it air out, then restarted for the movie. The air was barely that clear when I worked there in 2000 (I worked primarily on 3 Mold Line as a furnace operator. My job was to keep the molten iron at 2700*F +/- 30*F).
The iconic 'mileage maker' or 'falcon' six...😊❤
Folks in Marshall, MI are about to experience an identical 21st-century version of this with Blue Oval China.
Very interesting to watch.
Made in America and Great.
Brook Park, Ohio would not be a city if it wasn't for Ford Motor Company. It started out as a village.
and now turning to trash
3:55 I like how the inspector puts a label on an engine that reads "O.K."
Lee Iacocca in his first autobiography book describes his beginning at Ford and his challenges with passion.
Which one of those guys is John Demjanuk
Most people today don't know who John Demjanuk was.
Forgot about him! It would be scary to work next to that criminal (if you knew his back ground, especially if you were Jewish!).
The one who had his shoe laces tied in little nazis.
Ford is a major US automaker named after Henry Ford who is generally credited for implementing the “assembly line” method of delivering large numbers of automobiles to the public at a relatively affordable price.
Some history correction is necessary...... Ford didn't implement or INVENT the assembly line!!!! It already existed but he improved it by making it move. Before the assembly line was stationary and the workers moved to the product to perform a certin task not a very efficient way to mfg products. So Ford reversed the process by moving the product and each person was stationary and performed one function greatly improving production with fewer defects.
My grandfather, father and I all worked at Cleveland Foundry / Cleveland Casting Plant.
Some of those guys were VETS of WW2, better men there never were
Gramps at @9:00
Those men ARE the "GREATEST GENERATION"! We owe them our gratitude!
I remember how proud I was because of the 351 Cleveland engine, and I also am reminded how difficult it was for a black man to get work in the fifties when the USA was great. The truth is after ww2 we prospered as most of the worlds economies were devastated. I love this country and when we are United and innovative we are beyond compare.
They shaped our nation . .
Jim dandy - Almost every man in this film over the age of 29 was a WWII vet.
The Engine to my 1976 Mercury Cougar was produced in those plants. It was a 351. I got a 145 k miles out of it before I traded in the car for an 82 Ford Ganada with a 200 ci 6 cylinger.
A time when the country moved on Cleveland Iron... now that foundry is leveled and just a field again. All those jobs gone from Cleveland, once "The Best Location In the Nation!"
I was wondering if it was still there. I hauled auto parts back in the 80's. We had a terminal at Brookpark.
all about the rich stayin rich.
The Brookpark Ford Engine plant had tours open to the public in 1953.
Imagine this kind of well thinking plus modern technology would be great.
Many of those guys are World War 2 veterans, surviving one hell hole to go into another. That foundry took its last victim just weeks before it was closed down.
My Farher nearly died in engine plant 1 when he was badly burned in a hot test accident.
"Bakes them as hard as a bride's biscuit..."
When America was great, and built things.
Brookpark...I used to work off of 9th St and Huron in downtown, right down the street from the INDIANS stadium, Jacobs Field, and I lived in Westlake...where is Brookpark? Is it by the Tremont area, or out past 117th St? I moved from Westlake to Juneau, Alaska in '02, and I can't seem to remember where Brookpark is...
Between Parma and the airport, just south of l-480
stlwtr2011 ....oh yeah...I used to work off of Miles Rd in Warrensville Heights, off of 480, so comin from Westlake, I'd have driven thru Brookpark every day, right? My memory ain't what it once was, 48yrs old and this gettin older s**t sucks....lol
This is pretty cool. I live not to far from there!
Them days are long gone people think this dirty shitty work but all them men women got retirement and health care now no one wants to Do anything this is what maid u.s grate now no every one wants everything esey and free
Yep Tami, you can really tell that some people fell through the cracks of education!
..... If they only knew that in the future, "Automation" would cost 80% of that Proud Workforce their JOBS, forever.
At least those that stayed in the U.S. .... China now has our Former economy.
The price of NAFT! Ford moved its Cast IRON plant to Mexico! Just so old Billy Ford and his Family could make more... Yes, Ford still uses Cast IRON in it truck blocks but they are Mexican Blocks. All the metal of the Cleveland Casting Plant was shipped to China. Sad!
Yeah, I was just looking online at a 2020 Dodge 2 door pick up w 4WD almost everything is made in Mexico, still cost almost 40 grand with a HEMI though
Their still making motor at that plant till this day. And all automakers and just about every company in this country go for the cheap labor. and both parties sold us out and still are. They like 50 cents a hr pay. But still sell it here for top dollar. Greed is killing this great country. big business and the rich have both parties bought out.
InfiniteMushroom Agree with most of what you have written. For sure about Reagan he pretty much killed the middle class in this country but so many love him and still do. He changed everything when it came to how companies treated there employees told them it was ok to treat them like shit. And many did. Am still waiting for the crumbs to fall to me. And man have these people fallen for the orange clown the conman
The EPA is so insane on manufacturers Iron casting is almost non existent in the USA! Its a dirty process with lots of exhaust gas the crying leftists have made the pollution laws so strict its ridiculous. Ford probably had no choice but to move it to a foriegn country. They used to do other non automotive Iron castings by me in the 80s and that plant is long gone. Thanks to political nonsense.
@@PatriotPaulUSA Oh I know only democrat had a hand in it. Where were the republicans at all that time. Maybe the government did go to far but than trump went to far the other way and didn’t even think about the damage that might come from it. Do we have the trillions of dollars to clean up what in the ground already in this country from companies that just didn’t care what they were doing to the environment or to the people that work at them companies and who going to pay for it us. Their probably is land in just about every city that is unusable polluted and cost millions to clean up. If the companies did things the right way at the beginning we wouldn’t of needed the government to get involved. And Trump doesn’t even think about it or care about it. Got to find the middle both parties are guilty. Am old enough to seen what was going on in the old days. The EPA hasn’t had any power for yrs now both parties took it from them you got to be a real screw up for them to get involved these days in business. Most cities are responsible for protecting themselves from polluters these days they don’t want to be left with having to spend millions to clean it up. Because are government let the companies off from them paying for it and put it on the tax payers to pay for it and your talking trillions is Trump going to give the city the money to clean it up no. They were protecting the workers and the environment don’t be a fool. How old are you. The little city I live in acres of land that just sits going to waste because it will take millions to clean up. And that is happening all over the place.
This I can imagine when retirement came what a beauty man being in your home paid for and you can stay in your neighborhood neighborhood wasn't being sold out priced out will you ended up with other fellas that will still working and then something changed 1980 it started
Taxes in Brook Park were nice and low, thanks to the payroll taxes from that Ford Plant.
I am absolutely in awe of this production facility. The people who sat down to design the processes need more than a knighthood. Next to mention are those people who designed and built the machines to make the products. I often wonder if there is only a handful of people in such a major plant that know every part and procedure in the place. America at this time was the world leader in volume manufacturing. I would have given a left testicle to be able to have free reign to wander around a place like this. Anyone want to come along?
Looks like this new "automation" thing has a bright future...
Is that Radar 0'Reilly at 6:07??
14:08 A sneak peak at Ford's new OHV V-8. Never quite gained the fame of Chevy's V-8 which came out in '55. BTW, I worked in both cupola and arc foundries (ag industry). Don't be fooled, there was plenty of hard work. Sweeping with a broom, striking off molds with a sharp piece of angle iron, pouring molten iron (two-man), clamping and unclamping molds with a hammer; and did I mention shoveling oily sand from machine pits? Oh, and that sand muller. We had to lock it out and crawl in it and chip out the crusty sand before shift start-up. How about shoveling fly-ash off the roof of the foundry? Yep, did that too. As the years went by I shipped castings, scheduled castings, methodized castings, did statistical quality control on the castings, and maintained the specification data base of the castings. Retired as a technical author of the final product.
Great times. Hard work. Lots of overtime. Young guys buying brand new cars. I think a lot of the young folks today want to sit at a desk and screw around with a computer and skip the work phase. Just my opinion. And the air could be bad, so we wore a respirator. No big deal. I chuckled at all the guys in the vid smoking in the foundry. They put an end to that around 1986. I never smoked.
I hope every man and woman who worked those jobs has a happy retirement; they deserve it. Thanks for letting me share a few thoughts.
I think this,a 223 Cubic inch 6 cyl,I rebuilt one about 1970 kind of weird timing chain 10 links?...I got it right whatever😊.
A very, very different America 70 years ago. They sure didn't put up with any "DEI" in those days or "pride week" transgender celebrations, or "drag queen reading hour" for their children. America has gone to hell in a hand basket since this was filmed. It truly was the "Greatest Generation". They would have never allowed progressive marxism to overtake industry, life, and education like today. America's best years are 70 years behind us, just as this film illustrates. Everything these hardworking men and women did for our country, has all been handed over to incompetent, communist, power-hungry demons who are hellbent on the complete destruction of the American Way of Life. 😢
I always liked Ford's 289 small block - very good engine - early model Mustangs had them. This plant produce the 289?
Windsor engine plant, across the Detroit River in Canada
@@dfabeagle718 Thanks!
Well they were cast in Cleveland, at least the later ones, We cast the 5.0L Explorer blocks on 2 Mold line in Cleveland.... You can look on any Ford casting, and it will say where it is cast. CF or CCP is Cleveland. There was also a casting plant in Michigan... Michigan Casting Center?, and Windsor Casting. Things moved around over the years.... Casting in particular is easy to move. Plants bid against each other for contracts.
2:19 cameo appearance from the producer
@12:10....would be my favorite time of the day
lol
Did he just say added limestone and coke for flavor? What kind of coke was he talking about? 7:58
The EPA had a big part in Industry moving to Mexico the rules are so stringent did the cost becomes prohibitive and the only place that will be reasonable is Mexico
EPA moved smog across border.
Total bull..... .Hope your lungs can suck clean air. Can have both ya know. Clean air and industry. Take a look in Germany and other European markets.
@@johnrose954 Germany has significant air pollution and not to mention their rivers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-09/the-super-polluted-rhine-washes-191-million-microplastic-particles-out-to-sea-every-day
@@TTR83 Taimo, 5 year old article. Point is, cleaner environment does not negate industry. Even "dirty" industries can be profitable and clean up after themselves. You just can't trust them to do it themselves.
so they just moved the mexicans here.
If I had a time machine, I'd tell them to nix the 5.4 Triton engine.
Ford: A copy of mein kampf in every glovebox
back when you worked for your paycheck , now all we have to do is wait for our stimulus check
Poor, little baby, go and suck your thumb. You are a poorly-informed, misanthropic whiner. I am fairly certain that you goldbricked your entire work-life. "The boss is coming! Try to look like you are working on something!"
@@holton345 im your boss ,now make me sammich now
www.fordfoundation.org/
Is Ronald Reagan narrating this film??
Also, check out the modem causes Ford foundation invests its fortune
www.fordfoundation.org/
As people forget; the industrial power of America was prompted to reinvest in workers and production to avoid the 65% tax. The monies collected paid for the interstate highway systems, the education of returning ww2 veterans and balancing the national budget.
Industry decided to offshore production to use cheaper workers, decreasing America’s middle class. We do need to return work to America.
Wow, did people used to be that skinny? Guess this was before the big mac.
You should see it now
The price of gas was always to cheap here .You can see only 6's and 8''s no 4's .We lost the oversea's market's by 1960 and were dependent on Arab oil by 1970.
This is when you knew someone whether they were good for you or not but you would know and make a decision because you will see this person they were part of your group on live nearby where you live you can decide hey I like them I don't like them or whatever but you knew each other they called each other by name
Sounds like Johnny Carson narrating.
LIKE ALL THOSE CHEVEYS IN THE PARKING LOT.
You fellas are exactly right that's what happened each man gladly went to work and not only that they enjoy their work as hard as it was it was worth it you had a family back home waiting looking up to you you made enough in one income I remember my father used to make 68.00 weak with that this in New York City we had an apartment three bedroom the bills gas bills you will see them every 3 months barely electric was like $10 dollars sometimes I listen to my father's day did the gas company come and it was April or something and they will show up in April and there was still snow sometime and all that heat from the gas company it was a simple bill barely $30 what happened to us I'll tell you what technology they were warned about all this that was going to happen with technology the deterioration of human beings the disconnection
They look like chevy blueflame engines
I was a member of the same Union as these workers. United Automobile Workers of America.
During my 35 years of employment, the Union went on strike 3 times. We never struck for higher pay..But that's all the news media hammered on at how much money we made and we wanted more.
Learn what working at Ford was like before Unionization.
You can make America Great Again, Vote Democrat, Vote Union.
little do they realize that they would be out of a job in a couple of decades or less and it is all outsourced to other countries.
19:43...singing the praises how a mechanical arm is better than muscles...while a guy's elbow toils with a manual torque wrench.
Guys and Gals, tariffs are not paid by the exporter or the country that exports, it is paid by YOU, the customer, nobody else. All that tariffs do, is make absolutely everything more expensive immediately. Prepare to walk, not drive in the Trump future you so long for. And don't ever forget how much 'foreign' stuff is in your so called American car, again you are walking not driving anymore. Parts will cost astronomical.
right out into lake erie
Perhaps you should brush up on your geography. Cleveland isn’t anywhere near the Great Lakes and if you listened you would’ve heard that all the water was recycled and continually reused.
@@prevost8686 I grew up there. All through the 70's and 80's. Had a boat on Lake Erie. All of the steel and auto manufacturers, pumped into the Cuyahoga river. At that time the Lake was pretty nasty. It's cleaned up now. Mainly because most of the industry left.
Brook park is south of Cleveland bye about 10 miles the castings were sent to the assembly plant in brook park and how do you see that Cleveland isn't anywhere near the great lakes it sets on the shore of one of the great lakes
@@sillygoose2508Guy obviously was mis. informed
I had a 1940 flat head a 1958 y block great 64 289 67 240 74 240 80 400m a crappy 84 460 made by standard oil 2007 2.3l 2008 5.4 l what adds apposite ment drop the liter go back to cc like my 1970 351 w
Make american america again your all messed up w foreign design take the FE and Windsor in ject them maybe ohc American iron was what henery was a bout for get Mexico north America I ve never been so disappoint as2008 s d you can do better I remember a basic training no extreme thrills but was reliable you old quaility 1 you for got it thank you
Now let's ship all production to China.
We almost have how many things do you see made in America not many. But they are leaving China and just going to other third world countries nothing has changed. It all greed.
I have a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2 V-8 for a winter vehicle and when changing my trans. fluid with the MOPAR factory dealership filter, fluid and gasket I noticed the filter was made in either China or Mexico, truly SHAMEFUL
Manufacturing can never come home, even in China it is done by robots and computers.
I love how many of those workers are driving cars that aren't Ford's. Says Alot about the cars they designed.
Yeah, okay
More machines also meant less jobs.
Not a bad thing, just not mentioned.
Whole lot of shoe box fords in the lot. I haven;t been in the since 1958.
Hii
We built all of our own components here in America! Along came government and destroyed American jobs!
If you could only smell the odors and try and try to breath the air. The good old days.
That smell never left you....
The machines did the heavy work but none of the men are fatsos.
I worked there in 2000, and we still worked hard.
351C 4v
Note that the black guys don't get introduced or cameoed.
I posted the same thing. Disappointing. The announcer was snarky to a fault, too.
@@SharpByCoop Looked like all the black guys worked in one area - at crappy jobs.
You guys are Piss whiners, I bet the black folks working there weren’t piss whining babies.
Progress= Capt Taco, porn shops and rat trap motels.
I REALLY loved the footage and processes. However, the presentation was especially snarky, and I was VERY disappointed at how only the 'white men' were noted and mentioned by name. 1954 USA.... :/
What? White men? all these guys worked in the same conditions regardless of skin color. In case you're no aware the mass majority of the American work force was white back then it had nothing to do with racism. It's a fact of percentages. The mass majority of America was white. Not a very big black population in the US then. The fact that no black workers are shown is because there wasn't very many there. Take a look at the men getting off the bus for example.
Besides the video isn't about how many minority workers they had, it's about the manufacturing process.
I don’t think that’s a ford
Quite right! It's actually a Diahatsu.
Dean wermer
My father, my mother, my brother, my uncle, and my cousin all worked at the Cleveland Engine Plant.
I could have worked there if I wanted to but I made more money than an autoworker and didn;t want to take the cut in pay.
What work you did instead?
We would still have this cool stuff but then again the democrats get in the way of progress period.
Another ignorant comment
@@johnrose954 you must be a dumbass Democrat
You need to learn some history. Ford Motor Company was a basic slavery plant before the Union.
Workers would be beaten by Ford's Goons. Sure Ford paid 5 dollars a day, he had to to get workers. As punishment for a department the Goons would increase the speed of the assembly line. If you couldn't keep up, you were fired.
I worked with some of those guys who were there and at General Motors during Union negotiations. I worked with a couple who witness shootings and beatings by Police and company goons killed 7 (I think) workers. Michigan governors, Republican, supported the companies, sent in the National Guard to attack the workers and return control to the plant owners.
Democrats have always championed Unions. Barack O'bama would not cross a Union picket line to some interview. The Republican candidates did.
All major legislation concerning Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were passed by Democratic administrations.
The worst Depression the US has ever seen was under Herbert Hoover, Republican. He didn't believe it was the governments responsibility to help people. People starved to death.
You don't have universal health care because of Republicans. The US ranks number one in the western world for health costs and number 17 in quality of care.
Yes the good ol'days of Democrats and Labor Unions, negotiated health insurance, sick leave , a decent living wage for everyone.
I'm 81 years old and I worked in non=union shops. Heat treating and foundry.
Then I joined a Uniionized company. My Dad was a Union worker, when he was able to work. He was a disabled WWII vet.
My Grandmother, a Union Widow (coal miner) drew more pension from the Union than the state paid out as Old Age Assistance. That was a state funded program in Democrat states to keep old people from starving to death.
United Mine Workers of America
The Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators
The United Auto Workers of America
Make America Great Again. Vote Democrat, Vote Union.
I''m 81 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I made a man's pay for a days work. But I knew how. My Dad was union and taught me the value of working, but also the value of a days work, and the value of getting paid a living wage.
I was there. I know what I am talking about.
I am amazed at how the rich Republicans have convinced half of the American people that it's great to be poor, that it's good to not to have decent health insurance, it's great to not have a living wage, help companies move manufacturing to China. It''s noble to cut taxes for the wealthy then coins will trickle down to the workers.
Evidently you don't know what a skilled trade is there jean
@@maxinehughes6999 Get a life B.
@14:00 The first test block of one of Ford's worst engines... the notorious Y-block.
Without sand you couldn't have an engine....no longer true. Now you can investment cast engine blocks also. Had to laugh, a pure white crew in Cleveland Ohio....now a days try and find a white man in Cleveland.
So what. Do you think that in 1954 black people were given equal opportunity in the job market?
@@rastapete100 while I'm sure some racism existed most of it was a case of if you have little to no education or technical skills you arn't getting hired. That hasn't changed through the present day and it has nothing to do with race.
Um...what do you think the ceramic slurry is made of?
@@StonesAndSand Still a sand like material but refined down to an almost flour like grain size. Not near as course as green or red casting sand. That is why the finish is so much smoother.
Not in a good way, technology given to the slaves by who?