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- Manufacturing nearly 5 Million Model A Fords was an extremely well orchestrated series of events that started from raw materials and ended with complete cars being driven off the assembly line. With production taking place in dozens of Ford assembly plants around the world it was important that each step of the process be consistent and efficient.
Expanding on our two previous assembly videos this compilation features more of the key moments of Model A production from dozens of Ford Factory Films. This video adds nearly 12 more minutes of manufacturing footage than seen in our earlier videos including the process to manufacture glass and upholstery for the interiors.
And we changed up the music for all the people who don't know how a mute button works.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Building Engine Sand Molds
03:10 Casting Engine Blocks
04:15 Machining Engine Blocks
04:45 Pouring Babbitt
05:08 Forging and machining Crankshaft
07:15 Torquing the Bearings
08:10 Balancing the Flywheel
09:12 Breaking in/Testing the Engines
09:45 Manufacturing Ring Gear
10:44 Spring Manufacturing
11:00 Engine Drop
12:25 Making Wheels
13:13 Stamping Sheetmetal
14:40 Tudor Body Jig Assembly
16:51 Wet Sanding Body
16:57 Pinstriping and Paint Check
17:30 Fender Production
18:24 Dipping Front Fenders
19:10 Making Glass
20:15 Interior Production
22:50 Body Drop
26:29 Final Prep
26:51 Driving Completed Car Off the Assembly Line
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If you've never worked in a factory, it's hard to appreciate that what you see most of these guys doing for five seconds is what they did for the entire day, every day, for years.
My first job was in a machine shop. I did the same thing hour after hour day after day week after week.... Found out years later that my grandfather got me that job to teach me a lesson. Needless to say I went back to school.
This is what Hell looks like
But when their shift was over they were done. They did not take their work home with them, and they did not have to worry about what was happening at work until the next morning when they punched in.
I started out doing factory work and it was boring and tedious for the 8 hours I was on the clock. Today I run my own shop and I am on the clock 24/7, always thinking about what is going on and what needs to be done. There is never a time when the work is completely out of mind.
@@BadWolf762 Running your own shop is the worst of both worlds. All the stress and worry, and you still wind up back on the floor punching out 1500 of something to fill an order.
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What impressed me the most was they manufactured everything right there from the beginning of pouring the engine blocks right down to the wire spoke rims. Henry Ford was a big thinker a visionary that actually did what he dreamed.
I worked at GMH Fisherman's Bend in plant No 1 in the 1970s in an era where GMH built virtually the complete vehicle in-house. Many things in this video were still being done. The factory was much larger and more spacious. Methods engineering had reduced handling and made conditions safer. Indeed working at GMH was vastly safer than in the heavy steel industry where injury was still pretty common. One thing that most of these movies get wrong is the myth that people were trapped into doing just one repetitive job. This was very much up to the individual. Foremen actually wanted workers to be multiskilled. You needed an agile work force because people might call in sick etc. I worked and was trained in many roles from machining to assembly to welding to many tasks. I thoroughly enjoyed the work. These days I restore classic cars as a hobby in retirement. Especially vehicles of the 1940s and 1950s. It really was the great age of manufacturing quality machines.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your story. I work in an office that looks out on the old GMH plant. It reminds me every day how Australia has forfeited all its once excellent industrial capability. 0ur country, which once had 5 or 6 car manufacturers, an aircraft manufacturing industry, appliance factories, etc, is now industrially bankrupt. It is a tragedy.
I had a Model "A". I used it several times to go buy parts to fix my modern everyday car!! One of the greatest cars ever designed.
Right on!
No computers, no robots. Just hard-working men producing what was then, state-of-the art automobiles.
Truly a spectacle to see!
Back in the days when we still made great products. And this was during the depression too!
It's absolutely awe inspiring that they could do all this over 100 years ago. Henry was a true genius.
Henry Had His MAMMOTH River Rouge Plant Up And Running In Time For Model-A Production, That Added To His Earlier Methods Incorporated At The Highland Park Factory. Controlling Virtually EVERY ASPECT Of Car Production From Start To Finish, So There Were NO Interruptions In Manufacturing Vehicles. Beginning From Raw Materials To The Finished Vehicle. So It Was A LOT MORE Than Just 100-Years Of Continual Expanding Auto Making Experience...
All spare parts were made by hand, one piece after another. There were no robots or computers running a factory.. There is nothing more beautiful than making and perfecting the human hand.☝️👍
yes NO CAD NO CNC = a fine human and hearty product. Let us get rid of computers. They make people so silly.
God Bless all those hard working people. They shaped the greatness of America.
I can't even imagine how they were able to create the tools and dies for all those complex shapes and have the parts come out fitting so well, without the aid of computers and CAD software.
Ford's pattern shop was among the best in the world. Charles Sorensen was his head of production and his original role at Ford was as a pattern maker. He was incredibly well respected in the field for his ability to manufacture parts to a very precise level of detail. Thanks for watching!
That was back in the day when people had skills ...A Craftsman does not need computers or CAD software to accomplished his job ..
Computers and CAD software is used today so that anyone with no skills can do that job
That always get me too, how they made the tools to make the tools
My dad was born in 28. He passed 2 years ago, I miss the old man every day.
Henry Fords greatest achievement was interchangeability. Standardization of components. He perfected the assembly line
Unbelievable, that they made their
Own glass,
Their own upholstery
So many differences between this time period and now that this movie illustrates. Thousands of people working making these machines that have now been replaced via robots and/or off-shore cheap labor all in the name of "good business/profits" while Henry Ford became one of the Richest men in the world using this model. Have to love the ingenuity in all the machinery shown here that someone had to engineer, assemble, run, and maintain. Notice the guy who comes and checks the "quality/accuracy" gauge the guy is using on the cranks. Love those big stamping presses making the body panels and the guys fitting the Tudor Sedan body together.
Currently assembling a 1931 Model A motor together from a stash of old parts, this film really hits home by how "automated" they had engineered this assembly line. "Everything" had to be very accurate as there is very little "adjustment" available on most of these assemblies.
My Grandfather run a stamping press like that one at Fisher Body in Grand Rapids, Michigan for G.M. He retired in 1976.
I've got a 31 AA it ran 20 years ago...always loved Fords
Not one of them complaining about “I CANT BREATH” or complaining about how hard the work was. True American men with a back bone. Nothing like the sissies we have today. I’m proud of each and everyone of the men that put the model A’s on the road.
They did complain, they just waited until they got home to do it.
Just look at the sissy man-boy cops of today. It takes five of these bedwetting thugs just to take down one old-timer.
@@tanyaslusarczyk4805 When do you get out of jail?
@@tanyaslusarczyk4805 Better Keep Watching Your Video Games And Playing In Your Sandbox Where You Belong Kiddo...
They Died Early Of Lung Infections, Physically Wore Out, Or Sustained Work Related Injuries From Line Production In Close Quarters... Apparently It Sounds Like You've Never Done A HARD DAYS WORK IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE Yet Cream Puff Denny BOY...
Back when America took pride in making a product in the USA .there was no part stamped, made in Taiwan.
Made in China 😢
@@austinlane5533 Buy low and sell high applies to everything, not just stocks. Good comment.
You are naive, these people were used up like cattle. This is a dark past for those that toiled in these unsafe slave farms.
@Tom bryan and you're a troll and most likely the whistle blowing RAT type .
Those men were strong and didn't sit behind a computer complaining like a little girl. They worked and fed their families like real men.
Back when America worked- and appreciated their work, and their jobs. Good video. Best we don’t forget where we came from!👍🇺🇸❤️
Thanks for watching!
I have unwavering respect for the engineers who developed the automation in these plants. A finely tuned symphony of complex varied movements that come together in harmonious task delivery hour after hour after hour.
The mechanical upkeep, the onerous troubleshooting and the “overhaul” shutdowns had to be mind bending.
Respect ✊ 🇨🇦
Ford surrounded himself by innovators who figured out how to make it work. Henry gets all the credit but he relied heavily on others to produce results. Thanks for watching!
Some of these awesome cars still remain in 2022, but sadly the people who made them arn't,i hope they all lived beautiful lives and are imortalised in this video..
Fascinating. This was a time when America led the world in manufacturing.
What a difference a hundred years makes.
When the stock market crashed in '29 these guys were glad as hell to have a job.
How hard these men worked to support their family/ country. look at the sloth we have created today,.
fender T ...define sloth..
@@rockwellrhodes7703 The youth of today are as hard working as any generation..I'm 70 years old and that's what my dad use to tell me 50 years ago about the boomers,in other words my generation "the boomers"
@@bigstuff52That’s laughable. If we were to pick up the current generation and toss them into WW2 we would all be speaking German today.
Very hard working people. God has blessed Americans so much. I hope they're thankful
The manufacturing automation of those times is simply astounding & it was all pioneered then! Also, everything is made in-house!! All sorts of trades specialists under one roof!!
Can you even imagine the noise, the atmosphere, and the pace. How many hours per day, and steady at it. I didn't see no fat boys.
The hammering of the crankshaft is probably a noise unlike any other! Thanks for watching.
This Film Was Made BEFORE McDonalds And Burger King Opened Hamburg Stands Outside The Factory Gates...
@@davemckolanis4683 Re: Hamburger stands and factories. "Daddy, what's a lunchbucket?"
I bet the workers were BEAT when they got home!
And then they woke up the next day to do it all over again. Thanks for watching!
Thanks to Henry Ford for his hard work! 👍
I worked in an old foundry while in college in the mid 90s. They're dark, dirty places. When I saw that line of men pouring the engine blocks...no one can explain how hot that room was, you'd have to feel it to understand.
In the mid '70's I performed a lot of the foundry jobs shown in the video. Not much different, even 45 years after the Model A. I swear I experienced the smells, sights, sounds, heat all over again.
Hard working men of all races working to provide for their families making something to be proud of. Manufacturing jobs made a strong middle class. The gap checks and hand pin striping are interesting. Looks like Henry Ford is taking a tour at various parts in the film, especially at 11:27. Tall with light hat.
Every person in this film has passed on, but their contribution to America can not be understated. "Any color you like so long as it's black."
This incredible historical record of manufacturing process is a human treasure.
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating. I love the model A . How I wish I could go back in time , buy a new one and have it here in the present . So easy to work on and maintain . Did the job just fine without all the electronic junk that no one can fix .
And that set the stage for victory in WW2 - mass production of everything!
The Arsenal of Democracy! Thanks for watching.
Henry Ford paid his workers a incredible wage of $5 per hour. Unheard of for those days. He respected them and in turn they worked hard producing a fine product. They took pride in their work, and for the first time they themselves could afford to purchase their own Ford.
Uummmmm, more like $5 per day. $25 a week. In America, in 1930 that was fantastic money for semi-skilled labor! I don't think Mr. Ford gave them time and a half for any overtime work...there just wasn't any.
$5 a day...and it wasnt good work. it was hard hot work doing the same boring thing all day. And ge had a goon squad that made sure you did it on time and you met their personal expectations
$5 per day and if you get hurt you're FIRED!
The people that built these cars never realized these gems were worth millions today! ✨
Very interesting to see the assembly lines. Actually this gives a good idea how everything found it's place eventually on the vehicle.
Such a smart man he didn't outsource anything
He learned in the long run outsourcing did not work, the Dodge Brothers made a lot of the Model T parts and they had a falling out in the early 1920s.
He wanted to control the quality and the cost.
Working as a Ford employee was (and still is) the best industrial job a person could have. Those fellows back-in-the-day earned EVERY cent!
No, it's not true ...
At Ford, the workers are exploited mercilessly
@@hanahsbs5760 Exploited??! You must be a UAW worker to talk like that!
The ones who worked in the sand casting process and brake lining processes, many of them developed emphysema and other lung aliments from working around all the dust with no masks.
@@hanahsbs5760 Maybe those freaking whiners need to quit, and let somebody take their job that can appreciate it.
These guys were tough, fast paced and handling sheet metal all day without gloves or kevlar sleeves. Sheet metal production is like knives with razor blade burs. Thankfully OSHA was created 40 years later.
Henry Ford was way ahead of his time and he is the genius behind the assembly line
Henry Ford was certainly a genius and knew how to surround himself with people who could continue to challenge the status quo of production.
@mikescaffo4850, and standardization of parts/components.
I love Model A's and I could have watched an hour or two of this. I felt bad for the guys working in the foundry. I wouldn't have wanted a job in there.
No kidding!
The amount of thought, intelligence, science and engineering genius that these early inventors had is astonishing and phenomenal to think not only how to make an entire vehicle function but all the manufacturing equipment to build and assemble such inventions...it's truly incredible the minds of these early inventors who made our future in transportation, while I myself am still trying to figure out how to fit a square peg into a round hole , basically how stupid I am compared to these motivated geniuses !😂
Having several Model, A Fords I can truly appreciate this well-done video. Five *****
Simplicity at it's finest!! Those looked like a flat plane crank in that 4 cylinder!😀
Vibration! Pounded out bearings! Dipper rods!
the scale is still breathtaking a hundred years later
Indeed! Thanks for watching.
I have to say this. I believe that being the new owner who'd just bought one of these cars back in the day would have been a far better experience when picking it up from the showroom than today! Private cars were a new thing on account they could be owned by not just the rich & it gave you independence! The interior would have been just lovely, no artificial fake plastic stuff, just leather, wood & natural fibers upholstery. Today its all plastic, chintz, safety this, safety that and if its an EV not even the sound of a proper engine!
Henry Ford used Soyabean to make plastic fittings, knobs & buttons ect. Vinyl tops too possibly.
My grandfather bought a brand new one in 1930 aged 29. Of the many cars he owned this was hands down his all time favourite.
At 7:16, the camera pans across a factory floor full of busy workers. Today, the same scene, full of busy machines.
This is one example of what made America the greatest🇺🇸
Para mi lo más asombroso es como en tan poco tiempo desarrollaron todas esas máquinas para crear MÁS MAQUINAS.
Ein phantastischer Film !!! Hier sieht man Former und Handwerker die es heute nicht mehr gibt, bzw keiner mehr kann. Da ich 2003 in Detroit das Green Field von Ford besucht hab war dieser Film das i Tüpfelchen. Velen Dank
Danke schön! Wir sind uns einig, dass ein Großteil der Arbeit in diesen Videos eine verlorene Kunst ist. Greenfield Village ist einer unserer Lieblingsorte. Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen!
It's absolutely fantastic that this footage has been preserved. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree.👍
I love watching old industrial movies like that. Educational and entertaining.
The music is worth the price of admission.
What admission? I got in for free.
@@mrknotthall It's just an old saying. lol
Here, have a drink, Honey!
I would rather see a video of someone building the machines they used to build the parts of the cars, would be more satisfying. 😊
Can't imagine the heat in the casting department. Had to be unbearable to those poor souls. May God bless everyone!!
Yes, foundry work with *aluminum* can be warm work. I’ve done some at the hobbyist level.
Iron is said, by those I know who have done it, to be a whole world worse for heat and hazards - and it would be worse still in that environment!
I worked for amc, then chrysler for 30yrs. The amount of people working there back then! Must've been 30,000. Amc in the 70's had 13000 at one time. Today your lucky to see a few thousand
It's amazing how that was the top technology of the time.
It was revolutionary.
Other Car Manufacturing Companies Also Had Similar Assembly Lines Set Up As Well. It's Just That Ford Had Their Own Advertising Crew To Make Their Own Promotional Films About Their Production Process. Chevy Had A Really Good One Made In 1936 About How They Made Cars. From Foundry, To Frame Building, To Stamping Body Panel Parts And Assembly. Check It Out Too...
3:00 The noise and air pollution in there must have been monumental ! 😢
Yup. No hearing protection. No eye protection etc.
This is my fav video of all time, I could watch it forever, thank you for this masterpiece.
Wow, thank you! Glad you liked it.
Grandpa had a Ford dealership through the 1920s in Nebraska. Didn't stock cars then. When someone bought a new Ford, he would take a train to the factory and drive it back.
As a car hobbyist building a model A myself right now, who wouldn't want to be a part of this back in the day. 👍
It'd be hard to walk out of there empty handed every day...
AWESOMME!
I worked at a plant in St Paul that had rescued some old heavy press, punch press, and brake press machines.. Some were from the old St. Paul Ford plant...... (since torn down) The old "Bliss" heavy press was the most impressive, the rythem in its operation was the coolest sound of any machine I operated.... (lots of gear sounds, clanks, and a variety of cycling sounds as it pressed a part or two into shape, about a 3 second cycle.....)
Scarry! This many men with so much skills and talents. We've lost a lot of that today.
I saw one of those in original condition running on a back road outside Sneeds Ferry NC in mid September 2022.
"Scarry"? It was scarred? Or did you mean _scary?_
@@coloradostrong I'll let you figure it out. It was either me, or the auto correct, so...
It’s one thing to admire the assembly of the Model T but how about the engineering and design of all the equipment and machinery to assemble that car. All this was done in a non computer design world. 😊
Meant Model A
Good old drawing board my friend.
I imagine the machinery to make this production machinery was even more monstrous.
Outstanding video!!!! Thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
i been to the rouge many times late at night many spirits floating around that property.
Operating a lathe with a tie on? You’ve got to be friggin’ kiddin’ me!
😂
Did you see the guys dressed for a picnic? Gee, don't hurt yourself!
What amazes me is the fact that a lot of these vehicles are still around today. Rarely do you see modern vehicles lasting that long. Says something about the quality of manufacturing of these cars. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Everything that was manufactured at that time, including cars, was made to last and function for more than a hundred years to come, because they did not expect that the industry would develop as we see it today.. It is not surprising that the cars of that time are still very strong and practical and do not need much and their maintenance is easy and simple and does not contain many luxuries like the fragile and thin cars of today. For example, on the devices, notice the old gramophone that still works manually and does not need electricity, and the old radio that works on batteries, analog photography, and many things at the beginning of the twentieth century were very powerful, and most of them exist to this day and work..
Most Likely Those Model-A Cars Have Already Been Rebuilt Once Or Twice By Now Too. While Modern Cars Can Last Over 200K. My Taurus Is 23-Years Old And Still Runs Fine. You Must Beat The CRAP Out Of Your Cars...
@@abohosamabohosam4178 Sorry. A Modern 4-Cylinder Engine Will WAY Out Perform A 4-Cylinder Model-A Engine. And Electrical Devices Will Also Out Perform The Mechanical Stuff Of The Old Days Too, After Electricity Became More Common And Replaced The Old Mechanical Stuff... You Can Go Back To Living In The Past If You Want To. But Most Folks Would Rather Poop On A Warm Toilet In The Bathroom, Than Use An Out House In Winter...
My dad a Model A engine as long as I can remember. Moved it across the country and back when we moved. He never planned on doing anything with it. He just loved having because no one else had one. He was cheeky that way. He finally sold it about a year before he died. I don't recall how he came to have it.
Great feat of engineering and production of renowned automobiles. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
This may class as an oxymoron but to be so simple, they sure were complicated! Nice piece of history. Thank you.
and we can thank Ford for Kingsford Charcoal as a by-product to all the wood used in these cars.
What an impressive enterprise! It seems they did everything themselves even down to making their own fabrics. Still, I feel sorry for those working in that plant. So many health and safety issues.
It is amazing how it looks like everything is manufactured on-site.
It was. Henry Ford had the whole thing from scratch made right there in Detroit.
Es ist bewundernswert was die Menschen geleistet haben.
So wurde also mein Ford A gebaut, den ich nun schon 55 Jahre besitze
Henry Ford was a genius.
Funny to think that after 100 years, there's still a million of these cars on the road.
They have certainly endured better than their competitors!
Back when our country was great with a heavy industrial base . Now we do not have any thing like that .
La mejor marca del planeta y uno de los modelos más grande de la historia junto al Mustang y otros modelos emblemas de la marca .....gracia Henry por haber existido.....
I drove one this afternoon. It was awesome
Did I miss the part where the fitted the seatbelts?
What's even more impressive than all that work and production is the actual assembly line, what an incredible site.
Good old days, my ass! LOL
AMAZING and WOW !......That's coming from an ASE Certified Master Technician ! LOVED this video. Anybody who works or has worked on cars for a living should watch how it was done in the beginning !
Glad you enjoyed it!
4:42. Those presses they're using are the same ones I use at my job. They're Greenard presses! Different style though, but still very cool to see!
The guys in the engine casting room 🥵🥵🔥🔥
And the guys in the Machine Shop throwing those blocks around for various Machining operations, I wouldn't want to shake hands with that guy, he would probably break your fingers
Incrível uma fábrica dessa em 1929 e com controle de qualidade impressionante
gracias por ver nuestro video!
God bless American Companies and workers who shared the naicent American dream .
Some early Fords were assembled in Portland Oregon. The building is still standing. There were elevators in the building big enough to elevate the cars to another level.
The Portland assembly plant started producing Model A's on September 12th, 1928 and kept it up until November 1931. 32,962 Model A Cars were assembled there. An additional 3,995 Model A trucks were also built there. Thanks for watching!
It makes you wonder who made the modes and machines to make the parts
HUMANS and NO Computers or CAD CNC silly stuff - SKILL! And Heart.
Tool and die makers! Another vital skill the US has shipped offshore.
@@ronaldjohnson1474 NOPE. Plenty Of Them Around In My Area. You Just Have To Get Out Of Your Lonely Room Little Ronny. And Start Experiencing REAL LIFE Beyond A Key Pad, Video Games, Vaping And Doing Drugs All Day...
ليت الزمان يعود بنا للوراء يوماً واحداً ……….
indeed
Henry Ford, the visionary
And Nazi lover.
This production film of the assembly plant is beautifully done beautifully preserved. I can't say enough good things about this channel, it's just awesome to have this american history
Wow, thank you for watching and commenting.
Craftmanship unlike anything this country will ever see again.
Thank God.
It still happens in the US and around the world. But it’s far more expensive.
If you got 40,000 out of one of those it had a good run.
Those old Ford 4 bangers didn't have water or oil pumps. Splash system for oil, convection for water.
More amazing to me is not the car but how did they build the factories, tooling, and machinery so fast to get into production and getting everything to work like a well oiled machine.
Excellent comment! When I think of the massive investment and the engineering to make this plant, it is staggering! Few people think of the logistics that are required to make something like this happen, and I congratulate you. I'm a Vietnam veteran and while I was there I marveled at all the logistics that were required to keep things going, and not the guy pulling the trigger as he would be worthless without his ammo and food and support. Whew!
Surprised at such efficient processes for the time, agree with above comments.
Great video.
I believe it took 11 years to build the plant. But I too marvel at the staggering amount of machinery jigs and fixtures that someone had to make, and then make the process actually work!
@@PacoOtis There was a lot of money made off of the Vietnam War. Why do you think it went on so long? Nobody wanted the gravy train to end.
@@PacoOtis You're so much smarter than everyone else...no one has ever thought of those things.
Hat tip to Henry. Amazing!
Fascinating footage. These are the earliest productions of car assembly line, even though it was already 20 years old at that point.
Impressionante! Fantástico! Esta era foi marcante, este vídeo é um tesouro histórico!!! Parabéns!!!!!
I hope those guys were cross trained. I couldn't imagine doing the same repetitive task for 12 hours a day over 20 years or more.
Pretty well automated for their time. 🤟
Thanks for sharing this video 😊
Thanks for watching!
@@AModelA 8ñ
Around 4:20 I surely wouldn't want to be the guy who picks up cast iron engine blocks all day. Great video!
Whoever did that job was probably extremely strong
He was a big guy !!!
YOU Would Probably Pass Out Within Five Minutes Of Just Walking Into The Foundry, CREAM PUFF...
@@jonathanstuart7354 Those Dirty And Heavy Foundry Jobs Were Given Primarily To African Americans...
@davemckolanis4683 ok?
Why did you have a capital on every first letter? Lol