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Title: Fascinating 1936 Footage Of Car Assembly Line
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URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40yDbeukR10
Published: Sep 15, 2011
Author: White American Workers
Post Date: 2011-09-15 21:40:20 by Flintlock
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#1. To: Flintlock, Dakmar (#0)
That was cool as hell. There's an obscure early Jimmy Stewart movie from around that time called Speed that has a lot of old auto assembly footage in it. Stewart portrays a test driver for an auto company, goes to Indy, crashes, then goes to Bonneville and crashes, gets the girl though. Enjoyable if you can find it.
I thought so too.
"You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day. It's great to be an American" - Sail Away by Randy Newman
Very cool, lots of steel and iron for durability in those cars. Here are those cars 70-something years later:
My father has a video of a Dodge factory from the early 20's, there are scenes in it that would make any OSHA inspector cringe. There's one machine, a press of some sort, that is in constant motion. The workers are feeding in sheet metal and pulling out the stamping as the machine runs, one can only imagine the number of injuries on a job like that. I was also amazed that they didn't have any way to spray on the paint, they were applying it with mops, essentially.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
Did I see lod at about the 1:30 mark?
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Last Ford Crown Victoria rolls off the line NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The last Ford Crown Victoria rolled off a Canadian assembly line Thursday, marking the end of the big, heavy Ford cars that have been popular with taxi fleets and police departments for decades. Since 1979, almost 10 million Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Cars -- so-called Panther Platform vehicles -- have been sold. The Crown Victoria and its cousins have been popular with fleet users because of their roominess, legendary ruggedness and relative simplicity. Most cars today are built with so-called unibody engineering in which the body sides and roof play a role in keeping the body rigid. The Panther Platform vehicles were engineered with an old-fashioned body-on-frame design that's mostly used by pickup trucks today because, while heavier, it's better able to bounce back from heavy, punishing use. "You couldn't kill it no matter what you did to it," Ford spokesman Octavio Navarro said of the Crown Victoria. The automaker has started producing the specially designed Taurus Police Interceptor to replace the Crown Victoria that had been America's most popular police car.
Glory Days bump. Can't make it here anymore.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Are you kidding? Without the UAW that guy never could have afforded the surgery to implant magnets in his fingertips.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
I once took a tour of the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, it averaged about 120 degrees in February.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
"You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day. It's great to be an American" - Sail Away by Randy Newman
In the movie Speed that I mentioned above, the big Hamilton 901 sheet metal stamping presses were like that. Not only were they feeding the stock in while running, they'd lube the parts with paint brushes while the press was coming down. Manly stuff back then.
I drive an 87 crown vic. It's like Bruce Willis from Die Hard. You really are gonna have a tough time killing it. Lord how I know.
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Check out this footage between 0:21 and 0:31. It's a hot drawing operation for making copper wire. About 40 years ago my dad knew a guy who worked at the Phelps Dodge wire plant here and I got to go through it. That wire goes through those dies at about 90mph and the guys have to catch it with their tongs and refeed it. I'd swear that's the plant I was in, but they probably all look pretty much the same.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#2. To: Esso (#1)
That was cool as hell.
#3. To: Flintlock, Esso, Lod (#0)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: Flintlock, Esso (#0)
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#5. To: Flintlock, lod (#0)
We are not allowed to make a decision as mundane as what kind of lightbulb we're going to use anymore, but we're allowed to choose who runs the city, state, and fedgoob? Give me a break. - Esso
#6. To: Critter, lod, christine (#5)
Did I see lod at about the 1:30 mark?
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#7. To: Flintlock (#0)
a moment of silence for the Crown Victoria
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: X-15, 4 (#7)
#9. To: Flintlock (#0)
#10. To: Flintlock (#0)
#11. To: Eric Stratton (#9)
#12. To: Eric Stratton (#10)
I noticed only one slightly overweight person in the video. I found that to be interesting.
#13. To: Eric Stratton (#9)
#14. To: Dakmar (#4)
There's one machine, a press of some sort, that is in constant motion. The workers are feeding in sheet metal and pulling out the stamping as the machine runs...
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
#15. To: X-15 (#7)
"You couldn't kill it no matter what you did to it,"
#16. To: Dakmar (#12)
I once took a tour of the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936 2011)
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