Precisely So (1937) Manufacturing Tolerances

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  • @kyouhyung
    @kyouhyung 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    When a pre WW2 ad turns out to be more entertaining and educational than many modern videos.

    • @3rdGenGuy
      @3rdGenGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      most of these videos were made to train people (mainly women in ww2) who had never worked in the manufacturing sector before.
      they had to get the point across clearly and as fast as possible.
      the result is a good video.
      I make how-to videos and I've taken many notes from these.

  • @234dilligaf
    @234dilligaf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Man I'm addicted to these old videos!

    • @preetcharan
      @preetcharan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seriously me too.

  • @rixille
    @rixille 5 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    I love how stern the narrators were back then, how optimistic they were.

    • @reallyhappenings5597
      @reallyhappenings5597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Take the red pill I'll pray for you.

    • @Skullair313
      @Skullair313 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget that this is a commercial that aims to generate positive feelings towards chevy

    • @rixille
      @rixille 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Skullair313 No doubt, but all the car companies were doing this. The fact they are all proud enough to show off the engineering behind their vehicles makes contemporary versions pale in comparison. The narrators are just fun to listen to.

    • @CEOkiller
      @CEOkiller ปีที่แล้ว

      This was in the middle of the Depression…

    • @daviddavidson2357
      @daviddavidson2357 ปีที่แล้ว

      Press esc to go back

  • @michaelb2211
    @michaelb2211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    “To aid him in determining the extent of his possessions and purchases”. Ah man these videos are truly from another era, I love it.

    • @cactusguy4363
      @cactusguy4363 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also enjoy "forerunner of modern coinage"

  • @joellarsen8956
    @joellarsen8956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m 26 and I love watching these!

  • @IronClad292
    @IronClad292 9 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    Measuring is what I do for a living, and the tools you see in this video are still in use today as well as computer controlled CMM measuring machines, which I program. When you watch this video, please consider how just a few years earlier people were getting around using horses!! The technology developed fast........

    • @newjargon1697
      @newjargon1697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      IronClad292 The thought and origins of the measuring technology is very interesting.

    • @ogarnogin5160
      @ogarnogin5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It took a few centuries to get that far , They were making steam engines in the early 1700's That means they had some precision capabilities in at the least the late 1600's Most then were comparative readings , with calipers etc

    • @paulbroderick8438
      @paulbroderick8438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was the introduction of Statistical Process Control, a departure from the old GO/NO GO gauging system, which
      really controlled resultant measurements. Prior to SPC, a hole on top limit could lead to a 'loose' fit when matched with a shaft on bottom limit. Used SPC methods covering various critical components in production engineering.

    • @jakedee4117
      @jakedee4117 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so"
      Galileo Galilei

    • @sunrise8263
      @sunrise8263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And, consider when people wiped their asses with corn cobs. Hope they at least ate the corn first.

  • @lundsweden
    @lundsweden ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These old Chevy videos are still gold!

  • @freddiemaxwell8959
    @freddiemaxwell8959 10 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Back from an era when a skilled Tool & Die Maker was a master craftsmen!

    • @winkfield09
      @winkfield09 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      who couldn't hold 0.0002in. tolerance for the life of them

    • @braydons5623
      @braydons5623 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@winkfield09 those are rookie numbers... try 0.00001

    • @ogarnogin5160
      @ogarnogin5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@winkfield09 I started trade school in 1970 . retired now from tool work . I never worked to 2/100,000 . Tolerances that close and closer are usually on inspection equipment and they have different equipment than I used . A whole separate section of the trade. Also for that close of tolerances , temperature of the part when inspected will be part of the specifications,

  • @jasonmoore1900
    @jasonmoore1900 7 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The ending was one of the most charming and adorable things iv'e seen in a while! It's like a little parade of instruments! Precision st. gauge ave. I love it! hehehe!

    • @GoogleUser-sk5tn
      @GoogleUser-sk5tn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I laughed when I saw it. It was awesome.

    • @skuula
      @skuula 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pink Floyd must have watched it.

    • @GroovesAndLands
      @GroovesAndLands 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skuula That is exactly what I thought as I watched it.

    • @Robbi496
      @Robbi496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Watch "Autolite On Parade" It is on You Tube

  • @nyceyes
    @nyceyes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    There are so many things to say about this beautiful 1937 series of videos that I don't know where even to start. The tools to create the videos themselves weren't very advanced, yet you see cute marching tools at the end. Someone had to think of that. And if one transcribed the narration, it would forrm beautiful, proper writing. Then there's the perfect elocution of the narrator. And then, of course, the excellent educational subject of the recordings. Who would not be proud to have lived and contributed to that era. One can imagine families gathering around their TV sets or radios to see / hear one of these episodes. They are high quality productions, each beginning with a little story to inspire why the subject matters at all. They never insult your intelligence. And finally, the feats of technology themselves (i.e. the subjects of the recordings): Brilliant!
    All of these foundational things and pride in them have been lost.
    (._.)
    Thank you for these videos uploader. ❤️😊🙂

  • @seacoast6351
    @seacoast6351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    They say cars have improved since the 30s and Im sure in many respects that is true. I know one thing that has degraded since then and its the ability to produce a well edited, simple to understand, and extremely informative film such as this one. Nowadays Kids think the earth is flat and have no idea how anything works.

    • @mareksumguy1887
      @mareksumguy1887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sea Coast yep, that’s what I keep saying. I feel these old videos are far better educational tools than most of the much-more-modern stuff.

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Uh... no
      You’ve obviously never seen Mustard. And it’s not the best effort by a multi-billion dollar company either.. it runs on sponsorship and donations.
      What’s interesting is... we know more about the time you lived through than you do.. and can spot your bullshit from a mile away.
      That’s why companies like GM don’t make this anymore. We know that back then they made these to pretend they cared abort the customer. Only a decade earlier, they’d introduced planned obsolescence to fleece their customers of their hard earned cash.
      Today? The average car in North America is 11 years old because nobody can afford to buy new. They made them well because Consumer Reports and social media will absolutely destroy any substandard quality. And when the profits don’t line up... the car executives spend money where it matters most-in Washington.

    • @johndoe-so2ef
      @johndoe-so2ef 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's what happens when liberals run your education system and school unions....

    • @sd31263
      @sd31263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johndoe-so2ef This is what happens when Republicans in red states cut funding for education to the bone so they can produce stupid people who will unthinkingly vote for Republicans.

    • @johndoe-so2ef
      @johndoe-so2ef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sd31263 Okay democrat garbage.

  • @andyharman3022
    @andyharman3022 10 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    This is a chronicle of the "American System" of manufacturing that was pioneered by Eli Whitney and his system of interchangeable parts whose sizes were qualified by master gages. That system was perfected by the gun industry of Connecticut through the 1800's and transferred to the auto industry when GM hired Henry Leland to be chief engineer at Cadillac. If you walk through an inspection department at any manufacturing or engineering facility today, you can still see Rockwell hardness testers, precision dial indicators, and go/no-go gages. This is the bedrock on which America's industrial strength was built. By this system, auto manufacturers were able to build cars at low enough cost that anybody could afford to buy them.

    • @MrShobar
      @MrShobar 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Andy Harman The master standard is still the gage block, shown in the film. One step removed from the uniform system of weights and measures maintained by the federal government, also shown in the film.

    • @ogarnogin5160
      @ogarnogin5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They were mass producing things before Eli was born , He did not prefect mass production , Exampled ... rail road wheels and English ship hardware etc He never filled his 1st order for 10,000 guns because of quality control problems, H e had a more advanced concept , but it needed work .

  • @Kuessemir
    @Kuessemir ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I definitely would have felt very certain of choosing a career path in mechanics or machining if I had been shown films of this type and caliber while in grade school. Instead we had directionless and meaningless curriculum.

    • @GeneralChangOfDanang
      @GeneralChangOfDanang ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know what a machinist was until I was in my late 20's.

  • @drpoundsign
    @drpoundsign 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I googled "Jam Handy." He was actually an Olympic Swimmer (who lived to age 97) who got into communications later. His professor, at the University of Michigan, lived almost as long.

  • @bowl1820
    @bowl1820 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Okay after watching this, Now have to go watch a old machinist film. Seeing them machining things to those tight tolerances by hand is always good.

  • @ddkoda
    @ddkoda 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    All of these measuring devices permit mass manufacturing of fairly complicated automobiles within fine tolerances. Of course computers assist with much of this type of work today yet in 1937 this was state of the art in the automobile industry.

  • @mfaizsyahmi
    @mfaizsyahmi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Wow, even the arabic bazaar sketch has them speaking proper arabic (at least when they're counting). Attention to detail!

  • @JoshBrinson
    @JoshBrinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When I worked at Boston Scientific, despite all of the digital instruments, we always used Go/No Go pins to measure the I.D. of the catheters we made.

  • @firemanjim324
    @firemanjim324 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In his later days , my grandfather was a security guard at a chemical fertilizer company. I used to go to work with him at night , and we rode around on the golf Cart to go check the buildings and offices. One night , he took me into a huge room , in the main building/office , and it had a scale inside a glass/steel cabinet. It had tubes coming out of it , and some rubber gloves attached to the doors so you could do stuff with the scale , in a controlled environment. My grandfather said it was one of the most accurate scales in the state and that other companies and even state and federal businesses sent stuff there to get weighed/ tested. As a 10 year old, that was one of the coolest things I had ever seen......

  • @RapperBC
    @RapperBC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "WHY?!! WHY must MY speech be made shorter?!"
    - Guy who put the mud in the water clock to cheat the next speaker

  • @dnsmithnc
    @dnsmithnc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This was back in the day when the average Joe would marvel at such technology. Now, we just take it for granted.

    • @tjlovesrachel
      @tjlovesrachel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well personally speaking .... I think most people these says frankly just don’t give a fuck how anything works or is made... they just wanna use it and be done with it ... and when it breaks go out and buy another new guaranteed piece of shit

  • @asimov64
    @asimov64 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is totally AWESOME! Thank you very much!

  • @mistertraveler71930
    @mistertraveler71930 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I drove a '48 Chevy for quite some time. It had the 235 Cubic Inch 6. The engine had no oil pump, but got oil from little cups on the bottom of the crankshaft. It worked well with the lower speeds at the time it was built, but as speeds increased, the engine couldn't get enough oil to the engine. In '52, Chevy changed the engine to a more modern oil delivery system.

    • @douglasames6495
      @douglasames6495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mistertraveler71930 dipper rods

    • @dougherbert7899
      @dougherbert7899 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Both early and late 235s had oil pumps. On the early ones (53 and earlier, but up through 55 in some international applications), oil didn’t go to the rod bearings, only the mains and valve train.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dougherbert7899 "splash lubrication" like the low end B&S engines

  • @mdtalhaansari1096
    @mdtalhaansari1096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Who is that narrator? He is very motivated. Seems to genuinely like his job. He is talking to the future and he is talking with real pride.

  • @joshacollins84
    @joshacollins84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just think about how amazed those engineers would be now with tolerance in mass production.

  • @l337pwnage
    @l337pwnage 11 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You learn more in this video than in 3 months of public schooling, lol.

  • @MrRobster1234
    @MrRobster1234 9 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The labs at GM look like nice places to work. The factories were hell holes in '37.

    • @prevost8686
      @prevost8686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Rob Mackenzie people were grateful to be working. The awful taste of The Great Depression was still in most people’s mouths.

  • @rherman1966
    @rherman1966 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I find it interesting that, even though there were proportionally more people involved in manufacturing, the need for this film shows that there was still a great deal of popular ignorance of practical science, much less theory. One may argue that scientists like Einstein were more renowned then, but I dare say few truly understood their work, just like today. While we may moan over our education system today, the ability to distribute and access this information is much better.

    • @drpoundsign
      @drpoundsign 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      True...but, in the "Good Old Days" you had all those industrial sinecure jobs (coal mining, steel mills, and the auto, home appliance and electronic manufacturing.) NOW-if you can't make it with your "Brains or Brawn" you can join the fifteen million Americans who get paid minimum wage in the restaurant industry.

    • @COLDoCLINCHER37
      @COLDoCLINCHER37 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@drpoundsign you don't even have to be smart to get a decent degree and job.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@drpoundsign Also, except for the auto repair business, we are a "throw away' society. In "the good old days" we had repair shops that would even repair a $10 toaster. Think of all the jobs that were in the repair business, ALL GONE today!

  • @chris-hayes
    @chris-hayes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    16:31 "actually it is the sound of a human heart!"
    Interesting to think there was a time when the sound of a heart wasn't universally known.

  • @guzziben
    @guzziben 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We have the knowledge and technology to be excellent, all we require is the will.

  • @mikecorleone6797
    @mikecorleone6797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the legit OG aladdin intro

  • @merikmalhads1676
    @merikmalhads1676 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This man is likely long dead now but if there is still a part of him that exists, it may help to know that now we have almost reached a point where all of our measurements have reached a point where we can now relate everything to physical laws.
    Once mass is finalized, we will have the ability to measure everything in relation to the standard model of particle physics meaning we will be able to precisely measure regardless of location in our universe.

  • @curiosity2314
    @curiosity2314 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's a pretty amazing achievement for that time. At the same time then and today we cannot get body panels to fit correctly.

  • @MrShobar
    @MrShobar 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The stop-actionphotography at the end of the film was quite well done. It was also used in other GM films.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      These kind of presentations were on '50s TV often. I still remember some Autolite ads that had "marching" spark plugs.

  • @joellarsen8956
    @joellarsen8956 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Films from the days of success, the whole time feels like we understand and can control our world and material in it.

  • @ogarnogin5160
    @ogarnogin5160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Jam Handy films are cool.

  • @40Kens
    @40Kens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We did OK in 1937. 1945 and WW2, gained a lot - but loss much over the years. Apollo 11 1969 and this video, only 32 years.
    Time frame 7:40. Nice. Need to find that newspaper. I am sure it is online somewhere.

  • @domingodeanda233
    @domingodeanda233 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was so awesome.

  • @afnDavid
    @afnDavid ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Notice that Chevrolet very carefully does not mention Johanson blocks (A thing associated with the Ford Corporation).

  • @HostileLemons
    @HostileLemons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I liked the little parade if precise instruments at the end.

  • @CristianLopez-xi4rt
    @CristianLopez-xi4rt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    0:54 Me laughing at these people for the way of measuring things, while also me using a King’s foot to measure all my things.

  • @mrshmister173
    @mrshmister173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    who else is watching in 1937?

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They probably ran these as "fillers" at the local movie theaters.

    • @evltwin984
      @evltwin984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right here pal, sure was a swell talkie

  • @martyzielinski2469
    @martyzielinski2469 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Back when we did for ourselves.....

    • @gayrunnycumstain
      @gayrunnycumstain 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i did myself last nite inda shower, & again this morn.

  • @himanshumeena6434
    @himanshumeena6434 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are true manufacturers..

  • @gmcevoy
    @gmcevoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was born too late... This era must have been fascinating to live in. As long as you were a highly educated mechanical engineer...

  • @MrSaemichlaus
    @MrSaemichlaus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I expected one no-go car in the end. But that would've left viewers with a negative taste of course.

  • @pologamero2648
    @pologamero2648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The time when a company really care about their customers.

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They did not.
      They pretended to care to get the customers’ money.
      GM had just introduced planned obsolescence to the automobile world a decade earlier... forcing people to buy new cars if they were going to keep up with the times.

    • @pologamero2648
      @pologamero2648 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Bartonovich52 I don't believe in planned obsolesence. I do believe in material wear, i do believe in peoples decisions. The same cars you say as "obsolete"works by years, tens of years without problems when an correct maintenance is done in other coutries beside USA.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How do you know they really cared about their customers? This is a Chevrolet propaganda film!

  • @ModMINI
    @ModMINI 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All the measurements....and not once is the metric system mentioned. :-)

  • @Sven_Hein
    @Sven_Hein 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's these kinds of films that made me decide to become an engineer.

  • @suhayl5157
    @suhayl5157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love it. simply amazing, and the Arabs at the beginning are actually speaking Arabic.😃😃😃

  • @newjargon1697
    @newjargon1697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting Video

  • @Pertamax7-HD
    @Pertamax7-HD 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok sir

  • @geoben1810
    @geoben1810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5 yrs later this technology and the advances made in those 5yrs is what we went to WW II with. The knowledge, (along with Von Braun) gained during the war is what led to the America that was the envy and the symbol of freedom and DEMOCRACY to the world post WWII.
    In the 50's all that cumulative knowledge gave rise to the Industrial Military Complex that Eisenhower warned against. And here we are.......

  • @bradgotch
    @bradgotch 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was hoping to hear the "half a bees dick " unit of measurement.

  • @johnkoval1898
    @johnkoval1898 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:32 The old Argonaut Building in Detroit.
    From Wikipedia: The , renamed in 2009 the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education (originally the Argonaut, or General Motors Research Laboratory), is a large office building located at 485 West Milwaukee Avenue in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan, across the street from Cadillac Place. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

  • @MrMeoow91
    @MrMeoow91 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is incredible for 1937.

  • @HarborGuy
    @HarborGuy 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At least these were well done. Some TV commercials today after watching you don't even know what they were advertising. Also they are silly, and geared for the teens who don't necessarily buy anyway.

  • @seth917
    @seth917 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You're 100% correct.
    The school system must be changed for the health of the individual and the country.
    I hereby say I will do it!!!

    • @tjlovesrachel
      @tjlovesrachel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      seth917 the government does not want that ..... they want brain dead dependent people that are Barely capable of running the machines

    • @Bartonovich52
      @Bartonovich52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol.
      Compared to when this film was made.
      Literacy rates are higher.
      High school graduation rates are higher.
      Degree completion is higher.
      Kids are learning things in Grade 8 that this generation were learning in Grade 12 if they finished it.
      If you really want to go back in time as far as education goes... go to rural Mississippi... or Somali.

  • @clist9406
    @clist9406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Auto manufacturing and tolerance.
    Two words that should never be in the same sentence.

  • @jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069
    @jimmyhuesandthehouserocker1069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you tend to think that 1930 technology was stone age but most was as good as today

  • @killermeercat
    @killermeercat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can the day starts at 1:00 and there is no astronomical sign?

  • @gregk.6723
    @gregk.6723 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How much does a pound of feathers weigh ?

  • @rishabhkhatri202
    @rishabhkhatri202 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These videos are so good 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

  • @jimphillips8774
    @jimphillips8774 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When US manufacturing took pride in their work

    • @jshepard152
      @jshepard152 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Before the UAW, in other words.

    • @jusb1066
      @jusb1066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jshepard152 unions didnt kill manufacturing, bad products did, outmoded designs

    • @40Kens
      @40Kens 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because that High School/Trade School Grad was confident of his destiny, a Home ($6,000), a car...

  • @joebufford2972
    @joebufford2972 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Call me a documentary nerd but I love this old stuff. Mechanical machining😊 and one precision tool has to be better to make a better precision machining tool down to the tolerance that they are after

  • @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS
    @THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    IT turned into the cartoon part from Pink FLoyd The wall there at the end

  • @robertgoidel4014
    @robertgoidel4014 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now computers CNC machining does all this precision measurments. Unbeliveable just how accurate the computer programming can complete such exacting measurements.

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      All without taking a single "sick day".....

  • @NLS87
    @NLS87 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that libra is the awesomest

  • @Kyle899
    @Kyle899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So archaic. Inches, pounds, ounces.

  • @GroovesAndLands
    @GroovesAndLands 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "They" were better than us.

  • @brenthill3241
    @brenthill3241 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    And Gavin if some one made a tiny dot with a lead pencil on a piece of paper do you believe that it could be weighed?

    • @tjlovesrachel
      @tjlovesrachel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Brent Hill I don’t know who Gavin is... but yes it can... and I do believe it

    • @ModMINI
      @ModMINI 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If we can measure gravitational waves from light years away, with a mile-long detector in 2019, then we most certainly could measure a pencil dot in the 1930s.

  • @J16FOX
    @J16FOX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GM has managed to unlearn all this lately...

    • @sd31263
      @sd31263 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, they haven't actually. An American car made in 1937 had a life expectancy of about a decade. My 2004 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Duramax Diesel runs as good as it did the day it was built almost 17 years ago. I've never had to pay for anything beyond regular maintenance.

    • @40Kens
      @40Kens 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sd31263 Also, what really extended the life of a car is better lubricants. The Chemistry of oil and lube has improved significantly since 1937.

  • @steveib724
    @steveib724 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That straight 6 is still running today thanks to craftsmanship of those days now they design for brake downs and know when its going to brake lmao

  • @user-hw7dm9ik4p
    @user-hw7dm9ik4p ปีที่แล้ว

    after all these year,
    science film state that facts remains

  • @preetcharan
    @preetcharan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is how precise measurements, aka science, can be used to sell your product.

  • @northerniltree
    @northerniltree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think they put mud in the water clock at my grade school.

  • @maryemromdhan1102
    @maryemromdhan1102 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who makes the machines that makes the machines :o

  • @cutubevancedmicrog6162
    @cutubevancedmicrog6162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Muricans now : " So, 8 millionths of an inch.. how small is it compared to a football field? "

  • @luvr381
    @luvr381 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lord knows the auto industry never tried to cheat anyone, even then.

  • @silverfox5507
    @silverfox5507 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    A skilled trade ; surviver .

  • @tjpj111
    @tjpj111 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve watched so many of these I want a Chevrolet

  • @flavioleandrodeoliveiraalv9857
    @flavioleandrodeoliveiraalv9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tradução em português!!

  • @dementedweasel1
    @dementedweasel1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So, what's with the dancing instruments?

  • @josepeixoto3384
    @josepeixoto3384 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would never imagine that this was already going on in 1937!!
    Fast forwarding to 2019,surely it be something! am not calling it Shurley lol

  • @mebeasensei
    @mebeasensei 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where would these movies be shown back in 1937?

    • @jozg44
      @jozg44 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      These were all part of GM's 'mass-selling' technique (there's actually a GM dealer training video on TH-cam which explains it). This films would have been shown in movie theaters, schools, factories and workplaces as genuinely educational short features but they more subtly emphasised all the good qualities of a Chevy and built up the public perception of the cars. So the film about the differential gear is a very good way of explaining why the diff is needed, how it works and what effect it has but makes sure to end by pointing out that the new GM hypoid differential is the best ever and because of it the '37 Chevrolet has a flat cabin floor, or whatever. Very clever marketing!

    • @TheOzthewiz
      @TheOzthewiz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In movie theaters

  • @Backyardmech1
    @Backyardmech1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    😂 I’ll airbrush “precisely so” on my tail gate after my ls conversion. Single cam engine producing hundreds of horsepower and torque.

    • @TH3C001
      @TH3C001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice

  • @mrregal5662
    @mrregal5662 ปีที่แล้ว

    At the beginning of this video I was waiting for the three stooges to show up! 🙈

  • @Weimar76
    @Weimar76 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    It ends like "Auto-lite on parade" !!!

  • @BazColne
    @BazColne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good. I'm glad I didn't live next to this big mouth when he was rehearsing.

  • @Daniel-lb7bu
    @Daniel-lb7bu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think GM needs to go back and watch their old ads. Could learn a thing or two .

    • @tigerseye73
      @tigerseye73 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially regarding oil consumption in their engines.

  • @timcollins1131
    @timcollins1131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    British and European car manufactures in the '30's understood and employed very tight tolerances, the idea that Chevrolet was a leader in accuracy is hilarious.

    • @40Kens
      @40Kens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, it was a USA/American patriotic thing. The spirit of positive competition, each proclaims, "I am the best!" - in the end, everybody wins.

  • @rinyvanabel3467
    @rinyvanabel3467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was Napoleon who installed the Metric system in Europe.

  • @Sergio-ih6lk
    @Sergio-ih6lk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pretty good quality control just saying

  • @GoogleUser-sk5tn
    @GoogleUser-sk5tn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They took something as boring as rulers and gauges and made it fun to learn about.

    • @sunshadow7XK
      @sunshadow7XK 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only reason you think things like precision measuring are boring is because you had a bad teacher. It takes a real fuckup to get the drama of human history, the highs, lows, the bloody battles and amazing achievements of the human mind and make kids just glaze over because you couldn't do your fucking job.

    • @GoogleUser-sk5tn
      @GoogleUser-sk5tn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sunshadow7XK What I said was a joke, hahaa. Its YT, don't take things to seriously here.

    • @GoogleUser-sk5tn
      @GoogleUser-sk5tn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ralph Goober no, but thanks for the suggestion

    • @sunshadow7XK
      @sunshadow7XK 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GoogleUser-sk5tn It isn't a jab at you, so much as the people who taught you.

    • @GoogleUser-sk5tn
      @GoogleUser-sk5tn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sunshadow7XK Gotcha. I had one enthusiastic math teacher. He made the subject fun for everyone.

  • @horitson
    @horitson ปีที่แล้ว

    two football fields divided by cadillac=standard

  • @MichaelSersen
    @MichaelSersen 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bought a set of Mitoyo calipers while watching this lol

  • @michaelb2211
    @michaelb2211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Around 6 min; that hair was not magnified thousands of times. Maybe 100x

  • @bolech5221
    @bolech5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These are qurstion i googled but i dident get a good answer

  • @TS-1267
    @TS-1267 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ... Could That Be The Scottish Actor "John Laurie" Of 'Dad's Army' & Huggin's Of Films.. The Chap Measuring The Rope…🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✌️1:05

  • @genehunsinger3981
    @genehunsinger3981 ปีที่แล้ว

    SEE,we've had advanced tech for YEARS.The USA mang!!!