A good friend of mine - fellow gearhead, nostalgic for the better styling and charm of our bygone North American cars - sent me this link and I'm sure glad he did. What a treat to watch at every stage. The final assembly where the engine and front fascia/bumpers are loaded show just how fast these guys worked, slamming them into place. In the home garage we tend to baby everything together.....
There is a water tunnel that travels from the Ford Screen House, located on the Zug Island Canal in the nearby SW Detroit neighborhood of Delray. The tunnel travels under Dearborn Ave. to Fort St. Turning left unto Fort St. the tunnel heads toward Miller Rd. Turning right on Miller Rd, the tunnel heads right into the Ford Rouge Plant. So a lot of the water used to cool the steel, and factory machines in this video comes from the creek canal in Delray. Old man Henry drove a model A with the roof cut off through the water tunnel from the Ford Screen House, under Dearborn Ave. Fort St., and Miller Rd. Once Henry got to the Rouge Plant and the modified car safety removed- a telephone call to the screen house opened the flood gates to allow thousands of gallons of water to enter the Rouge. The same path Henry drove through minutes before.
@@kaiyack The tunnel is still in use. The Ford Screen House is manned 24/7. There is a tragic story related to the Ford Screen House. In 1965, 1966 an elementary classmate of mine named Jimmy Ferry, was jumping off the green bridge (painted green) that went over the Zug Island Canal - a second bridge used for Zug Island employees to drive onto the island. The water itself was a lime green color, yucky for even fish to swim in. Anyway, the Ford Screen House has powerful suction pumps that's needed to help draw water through the tunnel to reach the Rouge Plant. Jimmy got caught in the water current undertow, and drowned. The underwater divers found Jimmy's body sucked up against the underwater debris screen of the Screen House. The Screen House had to shut down the pumps, for the diver's to remove Jimmy's body held tightly against the debris screen, and bring his body up the surface. Jimmy's funeral was a closed casket event. I was given the honor of being chosen by Jimmy's parents to be a pall barrer, to help carry Jimmy's body from the funeral home to the nearby cemetary. The Ford Screen House has these huge debris screens to keep any crap from clogging up the huge underwater pumps that jet the water through the miles long pipe tunnel. Unfortunately why Jimmy decided to swim in that filthy polluted canal is still a mystery. Nobody would want to stick their finger in that water, yet alone swim in it. So to me, The Ford Screen House will always remind me of my childhood friend, and elementary school classmate Jimmy Ferry.
I believe I read that the Motor Company is no longer building automobiles-only Trucks, and SUVs. Why? And why would the woke, leftist, Ford Foundation allow its parent to abandon affordable, energy efficient, passenger cars?
@@fairfaxcat1312 You're wrong about Ford Motor not building autos any more. Ford still builds the Iconic Ford Mustang, both electric and gasoline powered vehicles. So don't believe what you read on the Orange Face Clown website. It's just as fake as he is. What conservative bullshit you read is a real witch 🧙♀️ hunt.
@@rickprusak9326 Hey, I forgot about the Mustang and Lincoln but they’re not very accommodating to the common man’s wallet. And anyone, left, right, or center, who has spent five minutes looking at the Ford Foundation, past, present, or future, even casually glancing at the organization’s policies and causes, would acknowledge with the late H.F. II that it has drifted pretty hard to the Left: “Because I think the Foundation’s been a fiasco from my point of view from day one. And it got out of control and it got in the control of a lot of liberals. . . . I’ve tried to break up the Foundation several times and have been unsuccessful. . . . I didn’t have enough confidence in myself at that stage to push and scream and yell and tell them to go fuck themselves, you know, which I should have done.” Now apparently and sufficiently “woke,”H.F. III has put the Ford family back on the liberal Foundation’s board for the first time in forty years.
My dad took me on a Rouge tour in early '54 and then as a kid biking to the Rotunda to enjoy the exhibits and tours until '62 when it sadly burned down. I started working as a Tool and Die apprentice at the Dearborn Assembly plant Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan in September 1968 after mustering out of the Army. We were assembling all types of '69 Mustangs and Cougars including the 428 Cobra Jets, 351 Hypo Mach 1's, 429 and 302 Bosses. In the pre shipping area one day were 2 black 427 SOHC fastbacks being prepped for the test track. No special decals or striping and very mean, all business looking. We also assembled the Shelby GT350s and 500s, less front trim and other unique items. They were completed at Carroll Shelby's facility. Always felt a sense of history and tradition working there. Great time and place to be for a gearhead after 2 years in the Infantry.
I hired in DAP in 78 till 82 got a Machine Repair apprenticeship mainly in the Stamping plant.Graduated got laid for a Day then went to Milan Plastics.
This is really truly amazing, dirt and rock in at one end and one of the most complicated machines of the age come out finished at the other end kudos to Mr. Ford and his thousands of very hard working staff. This was one of the most informative and entertaining movies I have seen. learned how auto glass windshields are made, how engines are assembled, auto body construction and more without any robots in sight.
My grand father started at the rouge in 1923 he was a tool room machine repairman in the rolling mill and my dad went there to Ford trade school in the 40’s..when my dad built car haulers we’d go there to test load trailers! The Rouge is nothing like it use to be!
Henry Ford described his trade school in his 1922 book "My Life and Work" , page 168. "“Beginning with six boys the (Henry Ford Trade) school now has two hundred and is possessed of so practical a system that it may expand to seven hundred. It began with a deficit, but as it is one of my basic ideas that anything worthwhile in itself can be made self-sustaining, it has so developed its processes that it is now paying its way. We have been able to let the boy have his boyhood. These boys learn to be workmen but they do not forget how to be boys. That is of the first importance. They earn from 19 to 35 cents an hour - which is more than they could earn as boys in the sort of job open to a youngster. They can better help support their families by staying in school than by going out to work. When they are through, they have a good general education, the beginning of a technical education, and they are so skilled as workmen that they can earn wages which will give them the liberty to continue their education if they like. If they do not want more education, they have at least the skill to command high wages anywhere. They do not have to go into our factories; most of them do because they do not know where better jobs are to be had - we want all our jobs to be good for the men who take them. But there is no string tied to the boys. They have earned their own way and are under obligations to no one. There is no charity. The place pays for itself.”
What a boring job. I worked assembling jet engines for a couple years. It was different in that a team of two worked on the same engine the whole shift. There was usually an inspector for two teams. After a couple years it bored the hell out of me, everyone thought I was crazy to quit because it was a good paying job, but it really wasn’t after I moved.
Yeah. But they decided it is more efficient after all to buy materials from people who specialize, and compete to offer the best price. Otherwise everyone would do it this way.
@@justforever96 Yeah but, that school of economics provides false economy. For the sake of getting parts a bit cheaper, the social costs are enormous as a nation's workforce is laid off and no longer retains its training. Institutional memory is lost. Factories are little more than final assembly points for stuff that others made. National security is lost because we are dependent on foreign suppliers. Case in point, Iran is what we used to be 50-60 years ago in terms of self-sufficiency and vertical integration. U.S. sanctions forced Iran to develop its own inhouse manufacturing. Now they have a large highly skilled workforce and the people are direct contributors to their country's strength. Their young people are engaged in useful pursuits instead of rotting away in Mom's basement, flipping burgers, doing Door Dash for people too lazy to get their own food, or pecking on keyboards - pretending that the internet is as real as Ford's River Rouge plant.
My dad was a machinery hauler, and I can remember riding in the truck with dad and occasionally going into the plant to deliver parts to many of the Ford plants in the mid 1970's. The main plant we visited was the Woodhaven Plant that was built in 1964 as a state of the art stamping plant in its day. I couldn't believe the size of the presses back then. And how quickly they filled a parts rack.
Amazing plant and vision by a guy named Henry Ford. That 30 minutes went by fast, great overview with lots of details like 3-layered safety glass and basic chem lessons!
Not to be too much of a sniggler, but safety glass is tempered and shatters into tiny gravel like pieces. Three layered glass is called laminated and when broken, creates very nasty shards that are highly likely to create lacerations. Very dangerous to human eyes.
@@larrygroThe Australian government destroyed our car industry in Australia. Hundreds of thousands of people lost good jobs and Chinese cars cost more than an Australian built Ford that would last 20 years.
went on a school tour around 1968 WOW seeing the steel rolling red hot great day ended up working at Ford it was very hard work earn our money for sure.
Went on the elementary school "field trip" to the Rouge, probably about the same time line 68-69. You would walk along a catwalk, high above the activity going on below, for an excellent view. My memories are the intense heat watching those ingots get rolled, and how the water falling on them, seemed to turn black as it rolled off the steel. How those guys did that job, day after day in that heat is phenomenal. Nobody wants to work like that today.
Exactly why I always got hot when people talked about union workers being lazy. I started at Ford Cleveland Casting Plant in 2000 with 200 people. After 3 weeks we were down to 170 people. People were going to lunch and not coming back...... Now it was a summer job but still.... we had 3 months of steady work at good pay. I was bringing home $900 a week once we got done with training and were on the line. And there were asking me to work over..... there was another summer worker on the next line.... at 8 hours he was going home, and they couldn't "make" him work the whole shift when the line was working 9 hours. So they would ask me to work out his last hour (our line started and finished an hour earlier). I was in my early 20's...... I would get in the locker room, and sit down for a few minutes and rest, to get the energy back to get my coveralls off.
Terrific film! The amount of work involved for making just one car, weather by people or machines is just amazing. Its all the more reason why old cars need to be preserved and restored whenever and wherever possible!
Part of old schooling was the demand that you learn how to read and write proper English spelling, including homophones, even those that use the same letters, with and without apostrophes.
I remember those old cars you speak of from back when several decades of them rolled out, new. Smelly, smoggy,, cheap crackly plastic interiors, paint that faded and cracked unless you kept wax on it and dirt off of it. Frames with surface rust before the car had time to reach a dealer.
Back in the day, the Rouge plant was an excellent example of a fully-integrated manufacturing facility: Ore went in one end of the factory, and finished autos came out the other end.
MrShobar we dug that iron ore out in northern Michigan. the iron mines closed and the U.P. economy bottomed. i left in 82 like many others. life is not the same
Back in the day, that is how America ran. The big companies bought up the best suppliers to better control the flow. Take GM, they bought New Departure bearings and Hyatt bearings, their two bearing supplier companies. These were later merged to become NDH bearing, a GM company.
Back in 1962 me and my parents took a tour through this plant. and also visited The Henry Ford Museum and Green Field Village ,I was only ten years old at that time
In my opinion the model T wasn’t the most amazing thing Henry Ford did, building the factory was. Many machines had to be invented, machines that did exist had to be built better to keep up with production, so many problems needed solutions and the biggest achievement keeping a business that big profitable. Im a small business owner so I know how numbers work with business. A business that big is very hard to keep profitable. Just one wrong decision could destroy a business. So many car businesses sublet a lot of work out to avoid many financial problems it’s just amazing Henry was able to keep such a massive business running.
To organize the systems and get them up and running would of been a super headache. Ford must of been a crazy workaholic. All that engineering to shave seconds and pennies. Just amazing. Just amazing.
The tooling fascinates me more than the finished product. Think of all he engineering that went into the equipment needed to transform the raw materials into finished components. Amazing.
Fascinating video. My grandpa died on this complex in a propane pipeline explosion in 1967. He and the crew he was working with were starting construction of a steel mill when the piledriver that he was operating struck the pipeline. Are there any former employees that remember this?
@@gregsmith4210 are they still bringing rock in the back door and cars and trucks out the front as in this video..i know cars are being made but not in this manner...by the way you are spelling MAKING wrong
Dave if I could hit the "like" button a hundred times I surely would. Being a model railroad enthusiast I really enjoyed the videos of the model trains. Seeing the torpedo was pretty cool too. Wish we could have seen the inside of that sub. Thanks Dave for the wonderful videos.
The millennial generation is too afraid to work! Soon they will have to eat their college text books to survive because the hard working generations are dying off and the jobs are heading out of the country. But their degree may taste pretty good with some ketchup, if they can afford to buy it 😩
So many of these assembly tasks are now done with automation as opposed to human hands. On the other hand, having spent my career in a Ford assembly plant, I'm surprised at how many tasks are performed exactly as they were 60 years ago.
I think the most amazing thing (which they didn't really explain) is how all the _exact_ right components come together at the right place to build each individual car. Some can be done by just keeping a stock of the various different components to hand where they will be assembled, but I see that they ship the bodies to final assembly after painting, and then they install the fenders and things. They need to have the correctly colored fenders, hood, truck lid, and wheels available for the exact car they need to assemble them onto. That is pretty amazing. And of course you want the exact correct engine and transmission, the right axle, etc.
Exactly! And this crazy "just in time" supply that works wonders in Japan because all parts manufacturers work down the street from eachother is showing not to work in the US when parts mnfrs are in different states. The US Navy needs to get with this idea and realize that in wartime "Just In Time" doesn't work. You need pre positioned supply and ammo dumps. The enemy kills your just in time supply chain with torpedoes, bombs and rockets.
@@JakePlisskin12 that job is best left to the other country's leaders. Of a country is poor look at it's leaders. It's Not the job of the rich countries to keep propping up the poor countries. Unless you believe in the one world government.
WOW , flash back. As a retired mechanic and as a kid I remember these cars. I’ve owned 3 fords over the years all F series pickups. My first was a 1962 F-100 with a 292 Y block. Then the next was a 1970 F-250 with a 390 FE motor. Now I have a 1972 F-150 4X4 with a FE-390 4 barrel carb. Seeing those FE motors coming off the line was something. I’ve worked on a lot of FE motors over the years, that was and is a good engine.
How about the guy at 23:40 with the guy wearing a space suit grinding on that car.could you imagine doing that for 8 or 10 hours.I wouldn’t last an hour.
Seeing how the process of steel is made is very interesting, never thought much about a metal that is still widely used to this day. The assembly parts of the vehicle then sure had a lot of people compared to now, mainly advanced robotics.
@redoubt south doesn't know The Rouge is still running, pumping out F-150's. I pass by it every day. Yeah, and Ford is still in business. Crazy stuff, I know! We even have plumbing and electricity up here in ol' Michigan.
Simply amazing! The true definition of American mite in the motor city. I wish I could of toured that place in its hay day. I'm a proud auto worker so it's very cool seeing the old days before all this technology junk we have to work with now.
William, That is what the U.S.A. used to be, before our wonderful politicians and the tree huggers sold us out to China. We can't use coal, they want to phase that out because it makes our air, water and environment dirty! (Cough, Gag). Also, it could ruin the land and drive out or kill the species of "THE HARRY CHESTED NUT SCRATCHER".This is the America that we used to have. The America that i truly miss. Now we buy most of our goods overseas. This was the TOUGH America before all of our kids grew up with such thin skin. If you criticize someone today, they run off crying to find a lawyer and sue you over speaking ones mind. Now we are all racists and homiphobes if we disagree even if you aren't one. They like to say that because they like to use our courts to shut people up. We can't have decent opinions today. I believe in live and let live. They don't. We now have speech police. And because all these kids who grew up believing that they should still get a trophy even if they lose, even if they did a bad job. I don't believe in racism. I see us as humans, Americans. Together we stand, divided we fall. Well, we are all put in separate groups. That is the "divided we fall" part. The only group we should have is Americans. We are all part of the human race. America was never perfect, but it's our home. It's the best place to live! I love God. I love this country, and I'm thankful for all of the people who gave their lives defending our right to be free.
RYLEIGH SIMS that’s what’s up man... you typically don’t see that ... like my dad worked for the railroad for 37 years ... started when he was 19... and stayed until he hit the minimum age to retire.
My grandpa came from Oklahoma in 55 walked 12 miles from the greyhound station had a job that day at Cadillac worked there few months got a better job at Ford eventually became skilled trade Roll turner
This may have something to do with fact that Soviets copied Henry Ford ideas how to build a factory(not only car factory)... Ford trucks and cars were also copied, they loved to copy his ideas and didn't care that he hated all communists... LoL
@@Bialy_1 You forget, that all people are made from the same dough. Chack Jordan (GM Vice President of design) once said: "MONKEY BUSINESS, MONKEY SEE,--MONKEY DO..." Remember SATURN the joint venture TOYOTA-GM. Americans had to copy Japany's way of design & manufacturing... Hey, Double LOLLLLL .
@Michael Kern bullshit , somebody else woulda been there to hold him back , those greedy leaches were more of a hindrance than a help , you know nothing about it . Henry was fully capable of taking the raw materials from the earth and making a finished product .
@@sickboy3636 , talk about morons , thats your contribution to "good conversation" , you offer less than nothing only some punk mouth slag , you truly are sick ...that pea brain of yours that is .
@@bobsaturday4273 ... There's always a surplus of pea brains who disparage those who can read and take the time to gently nudge poor writing in the right direction.
Amazing to see raw materials going in one end and a finished product coming out the other end. Now its just a bunch of Made in Mexico or China junk being dropped off for final assembly. Really sad what has happened to American industry
You can. The Rouge is now called DTP (Dearborn Truck Plant) where they build F150's. You get tickets at The Henry Ford Museum and they take you there by bus.
I wish they made educational films like this today, everything seems so dumbed down now, loved the way they made the stamping tools, can anybody tell me if these are still made like this or is at all done by CNC?
The assembly line must have been extremely noisy and unfortunately many of the workers must have had hearing loss. My father worked for thirty seven years in a U.K. Shipbuilding Yard and now has severe industrial deafness.
I worked in a Ford casting plant, the noise and vibration was so much you could feel it in your bones, and you couldn't have a conversation because the vibration would distort your speech. It was a summer job, but my father and grandfather retired from there. To this day I can't stand loud noise.
Jobs were bid by seniority as they opened up. And if someone on day shift on the same job had lower seniority, you could bump them to night shift. So the more seniority you had, you could keep working up to better jobs. My dad before he retired was "relief man"..... he gave people their breaks. He had to be able to do every job on the line, but didn't have to work the whole shift unless they were short people. Breaks started 2 hours in, and ended 2 hours before the end of the shift.
Interesting, no robots, thousands of people employed compaired to today's plants and you could buy the car shown for less than $2000 USD. I am reminded of the story of the conversation between a union leader and car company exucutive when one of the first robots were installed... The exucutive said, "See this one robot will replace 30 men and it works 24/7 with no breaks." He then told the Union leader, "I'd like to see you sell it a union card." The union leader said, "I'd like to see you sell it a car."
@Danyil Underwood - Yep, new cars are overpriced junk. I still drive cars from the 40's to the 70's. I am restoring a 1970 Lincoln Continental. I have a 1959 Mercury Parklane, have a 1959 Lincoln, 1950 Mercury, 1977 Lincoln as far as Ford Motor Company cars go. I also have other makes as well. I am spraying the 1970 Lincoln with candy apple red metallic lacquer here ruclips.net/video/DRHFxpCW2LE/видео.html
@Danyil Underwood Bellevue WA, Lowes pays $16 dollar per hours for appliance delivery, can't find people to work on the job. manufacturing job are coming back for sure, the proof is right next door to my current company production plant in NC, there is a new manufacturing plant building. btw, my current company made food products, fully automatic line with tons of robot/machines, still employed 2 shift 1200 people, and talking about adding a third shift, pays for average production line worker is 40-50k per year. screw the union. I used to worked for supermarket in my high school year, every paycheck is 80 dollars, the government took 25, the union took 10, and I can't op out, the union is the curse of this country, get rid of them for good. My college is GMI, had been heard countless story about union ghost worker, they DOT the big 3 billions each year, while honda and toyota plant in US are reinvesting themselves. big 3 has other problems, but the union did contribute to their downfall.
@@CJColvin you don't know what your talking about , today's are stronger and more heavily built in the right places, which would you rather crash a fifties car or a 2022 car
An amazing place and time in American history. I remember driving by this place as a young man and being both fascinated and glad I didn't have to work there.
Growing up I lived in Dearborn MI and I visited the Rouge around 1970. As a 11 year old boy, that makes one heck of an impact on you. Today my daily driver is my 89 year old Ford pickup truck.
My Grandfather opened our family business in 1957, Fontaine Glass Inc, here in San Jose, Calif, so the part in this vid I enjoyed the most is obviously the glass manufacturing. Although we never made any of our own glass, we've installed countless windshields,, back glass, quarter glass, and door glass in Fords over the years. Aside from the periods of time I spent overseas, serving in Afghanistan, I've been a glass installer at the shop, blue collar, working with my hands while being surrounded by this Silicon Valley bullshit and these liberal bastards. Anyway, I only own Fords, a 1945 Ford Jeep, and a 1974 Ford Bronco torque monster, so I really enjoyed and appreciate this vid, thanks for uploading it.
Why call the Silicone Valley pussies Liberals? It's the Republicans who don't want to get their manicured fingertips dirty, by only wanting to work in the office world, work 2 hours a day and then spend their lunch afternoon's on the golf course. None of those Silicone Valley cunts want to put in a good 8 hours of work like other blue collar worker's. Besides, those Silicone Valley pussies HATE the working class of people in America, as do ALL REPUBLICANS. I guess you never put your hands on a Bible, or attended church in you're life. If you did either, you would find that Jesus would be considered a liberal by your standards. Jesus healed the sick, made the blind see again, made the deaf hear again, healed the lame and diseased, because he believed in health care for all. Jesus made the poor, wealthy in heart and spirit. Jesus made a lit lantern burn forever on a few drops of lantern oil. Jesus fed 5 thousand on a few fish and two loaves of bread. Today, asshole conservatives like you would call that free and plentiful food a Government subsidized Welfare handout. And another thing GOP asshole, did you do the conservative thing by returning your Liberal Democrat President's Covid stimulus relief check? Betcha you couldn't cash it fast enough so you could buy more tattoos, beer, cigarettes, porn book's, Fuck Biden flags, and more Orange Face Clown's red hat's. Yet you hate 'Liberals", and gloriously ride on the apron strings, and coat tails of the "Liberal" Government leaders who pass bills to help those in our country who need financial, emotional, and food help. How many Conservative Farmer's hold their hands out, hold their red MAGA hat's out upside down, looking for Government subsidies to keep their farm's open, and getting FREE money for not growing certain crops every year. Yeah, you fucking asshole, dick licking Conservatives blame the Liberal Democrats for doing what you asswipes take advantage of behind the scene's, didn't think of yourselves, but gosh darn, oh Billy Bob gee wizz, you are the first people to stand in front of the line for free food, free money 💰 and take advantage of the rich money tax loop holes 🕳 the IRS gives you. So before you point your middle finger to the "Liberals", send your Covid stimulus check back to Liberal President Joe Biden - with interest, and then call yourself a 'TRUE" Conservative. Not just act like a Conservative when it is convenient for you to say you are - Shithead.....
For all the good it did. Look at the place now. Look at the country now. All gone...and for what...so a few people could have more wealth then they could spend in a hundred lifetimes.
I worked at the ford gouge plant .I was working for nickelson dock and terminal and we went to the Ford plant to work on Ford's ships. The benson the Henry and the breach. Did work on the hatch coamings where the buckets would hit as the cranes unloaded iron ore pellets from the ship. Did some repair on the hull of one of the vessels. They are called vessels not boat. I was 19 years old at the time I'm 60 years old now.
Just an FYI, you might be interested in.......The Benson Ford still sails , and still delivers taconite to the Rouge plant, with the name "Kaye E Barker". Ford's ships were sold off to Interlake Steamship Co. in 1989ish
Shoot, we couldn't even make the video like this in America anymore. The title is in cursive, The tree huggers would freak out, and the Global Warming crowd would go into full seizures.
Lol work ethic dick wag... But of course back when people actually made a wage and inflation wasn't high!! There's virtually no incentive to work hard today it's turned into a big joke!!
@@American-Motors-Corporation I wouldn't say there's no incentive, just that those at the top have been steadily increasing their share of my sweet sweet man thigh pie, especially since Ronlad Raegagean was the POT-C-US of United Airlines. That, plus the obvious trend of automation has created the conditions necessary for a candidate like Andrew Yang. Something must be done for sure, otherwise there could be some sort of workers revolution. Those sort of things are ugly and uncomfortable for most involved, so hopefully we can adjust our course without something like that becoming necessary. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. On the other hand, there is the eternal bloodlust of the tree of liberty. I wonder what will happen.
@@uncle_nightmare as far as the government's rigged census bureau goes yeah I don't really care what they say their numbers are skewed there's a reason why they let you see them because they only let you see what they want you to know!!
@@uncle_nightmare also there's a situation to where at one point in time such as the 1960s you could make less than $16,000 a year and still own a home still raise the family inflation wasn't that bad hell my own grandmother talked about going to the grocery store with $8 and coming out with two cartloads of groceries!!
Its so funny to move to Detroit and see that most of the people around me are stuck in the 70’s. Which is appropriate since that is the last time the Big3 made a decent car.
Just about the time that this film was made all of Ford's glass plant became obsolete. Float glass, in which a continuous ribbon of glass is laid down on a bed of molten tin, needed no expensive grinding or polishing. Float glass is a perfect example of the Rouge plant's terminal weakness: it couldn't adapt to new technology. Integrated manufacturing, in which raw materials become finished products all under one roof, exists mostly in history books now.
I was surprised to see that the bodies were hand sprayed and not dipped in a paint bath. It must have been hard to not get "orange peel". We visited the plant in 1972, they were making the "Sprint" edition Mustangs. My Dad bought a 62 Fairlane new (I was 4 years old) - he only kept it 3 years, as it had 13 inch wheels and rode hard.
They skipped most of the steps. They jump from installing pistons into the new block and some bearings, to showing them tossing an assembled engine onto a test stand. Then right to glass production. Frames? Upholstery? Do they produce their own switchgear and instruments? Trim pieces? Lights? Axles and driveshafts?
Did you ever buy a Ford in the 60's? We had a 1967 Ford Country Squire and a 1970 Galaxy 500. Both cars rusted into dust in a matter of a couple of years. It was common knowledge that there were issues in the Ford Paint Plant, but it was cheaper to send out an inferior product than correct the core issue. Now they wonder why their customers are driving Honda's and Toyota's.
But old American cars are perfect! The reason the Japanese came into the market and whooped their asses was just a liberal conspiracy to destroy the country! (Sarcasm)
Between my parents, my sisters, and me, we had a total of 6 between '61 and '85. No rust problems on any of them. And only minor mechanical issues over 25 years.
My dad had a Fiat 128 in the 70s. The car was like 6 years old and the frame broken in half from rust. It was a front wheel drive and he would tell me the car flexed when he accelerated.
I have heard Ford always has 3 sources of supply for everything. Have you seen LOF {Libby, Owens. and Ford). WWII the gov. asked Ford if he could build bombers. Ford said, "One an hour." He built a plant one mile long, with his own money, and built the B-24 Liberator.
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The ingenuity that all had to come together and be coordinated in one place to manufacture complex machines without the aid of computers is amazing!
I spent 5 months last year working in their engine facility. An honor to work in a place with such a rich history. I LOVE Detroit!
A good friend of mine - fellow gearhead, nostalgic for the better styling and charm of our bygone North American cars - sent me this link and I'm sure glad he did. What a treat to watch at every stage.
The final assembly where the engine and front fascia/bumpers are loaded show just how fast these guys worked, slamming them into place. In the home garage we tend to baby everything together.....
There is a water tunnel that travels from the Ford Screen House, located on the Zug Island Canal in the nearby SW Detroit neighborhood of Delray. The tunnel travels under Dearborn Ave. to Fort St. Turning left unto Fort St. the tunnel heads toward Miller Rd. Turning right on Miller Rd, the tunnel heads right into the Ford Rouge Plant. So a lot of the water used to cool the steel, and factory machines in this video comes from the creek canal in Delray. Old man Henry drove a model A with the roof cut off through the water tunnel from the Ford Screen House, under Dearborn Ave. Fort St., and Miller Rd. Once Henry got to the Rouge Plant and the modified car safety removed- a telephone call to the screen house opened the flood gates to allow thousands of gallons of water to enter the Rouge. The same path Henry drove through minutes before.
Is the tunnel still in use?
@@kaiyack The tunnel is still in use. The Ford Screen House is manned 24/7. There is a tragic story related to the Ford Screen House. In 1965, 1966 an elementary classmate of mine named Jimmy Ferry, was jumping off the green bridge (painted green) that went over the Zug Island Canal - a second bridge used for Zug Island employees to drive onto the island. The water itself was a lime green color, yucky for even fish to swim in. Anyway, the Ford Screen House has powerful suction pumps that's needed to help draw water through the tunnel to reach the Rouge Plant. Jimmy got caught in the water current undertow, and drowned. The underwater divers found Jimmy's body sucked up against the underwater debris screen of the Screen House. The Screen House had to shut down the pumps, for the diver's to remove Jimmy's body held tightly against the debris screen, and bring his body up the surface. Jimmy's funeral was a closed casket event. I was given the honor of being chosen by Jimmy's parents to be a pall barrer, to help carry Jimmy's body from the funeral home to the nearby cemetary. The Ford Screen House has these huge debris screens to keep any crap from clogging up the huge underwater pumps that jet the water through the miles long pipe tunnel.
Unfortunately why Jimmy decided to swim in that filthy polluted canal is still a mystery. Nobody would want to stick their finger in that water, yet alone swim in it. So to me, The Ford Screen House will always remind me of my childhood friend, and elementary school classmate Jimmy Ferry.
I believe I read that the Motor Company is no longer building automobiles-only Trucks, and SUVs. Why? And why would the woke, leftist, Ford Foundation allow its parent to abandon affordable, energy efficient, passenger cars?
@@fairfaxcat1312 You're wrong about Ford Motor not building autos any more. Ford still builds the Iconic Ford Mustang, both electric and gasoline powered vehicles. So don't believe what you read on the Orange Face Clown website. It's just as fake as he is. What conservative bullshit you read is a real witch 🧙♀️ hunt.
@@rickprusak9326 Hey, I forgot about the Mustang and Lincoln but they’re not very accommodating to the common man’s wallet. And anyone, left, right, or center, who has spent five minutes looking at the Ford Foundation, past, present, or future, even casually glancing at the organization’s policies and causes, would acknowledge with the late H.F. II that it has drifted pretty hard to the Left:
“Because I think the Foundation’s been a fiasco from my point of view from day one. And it got out of control and it got in the control of a lot of liberals. . . . I’ve tried to break up the Foundation several times and have been unsuccessful. . . . I didn’t have enough confidence in myself at that stage to push and scream and yell and tell them to go fuck themselves, you know, which I should have done.”
Now apparently and sufficiently “woke,”H.F. III has put the Ford family back on the liberal Foundation’s board for the first time in forty years.
They'd show this film in shop class at Fordson High School to remind alot of us where we were headed after graduation.
Visited this plant in the 8th grade in 1970 as a field trip, it was bigger than life! Thank you for the upload and GREAT memories!
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My dad took me on a Rouge tour in early '54 and then as a kid biking to the Rotunda to enjoy the exhibits and tours until '62 when it sadly burned down. I started working as a Tool and Die apprentice at the Dearborn Assembly plant Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn Michigan in September 1968 after mustering out of the Army. We were assembling all types of '69 Mustangs and Cougars including the 428 Cobra Jets, 351 Hypo Mach 1's, 429 and 302 Bosses. In the pre shipping area one day were 2 black 427 SOHC fastbacks being prepped for the test track. No special decals or striping and very mean, all business looking. We also assembled the Shelby GT350s and 500s, less front trim and other unique items. They were completed at Carroll Shelby's facility. Always felt a sense of history and tradition working there. Great time and place to be for a gearhead after 2 years in the Infantry.
Great story!
I hired in DAP in 78 till 82 got a Machine Repair apprenticeship mainly in the Stamping plant.Graduated got laid for a Day then went to Milan Plastics.
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This is really truly amazing, dirt and rock in at one end and one of the most complicated machines of the age come out finished at the other end kudos to Mr. Ford and his thousands of very hard working staff. This was one of the most informative and entertaining movies I have seen. learned how auto glass windshields are made, how engines are assembled, auto body construction and more without any robots in sight.
Some of them sitting in Jay Leno’s museum...
Fascinating. And a wave to all the other nerds who came here from the Proper People vid about the old Rouge powerhouse to watch the whole thing.
My grand father started at the rouge in 1923 he was a tool room machine repairman in the rolling mill and my dad went there to Ford trade school in the 40’s..when my dad built car haulers we’d go there to test load trailers! The Rouge is nothing like it use to be!
Henry Ford described his trade school in his 1922 book "My Life and Work" , page 168.
"“Beginning with six boys the (Henry Ford Trade) school now has two hundred and is possessed of so practical a system that it may expand to seven hundred. It began with a deficit, but as it is one of my basic ideas that anything worthwhile in itself can be made self-sustaining, it has so developed its processes that it is now paying its way. We have been able to let the boy have his boyhood. These boys learn to be workmen but they do not forget how to be boys. That is of the first importance. They earn from 19 to 35 cents an hour - which is more than they could earn as boys in the sort of job open to a youngster. They can better help support their families by staying in school than by going out to work. When they are through, they have a good general education, the beginning of a technical education, and they are so skilled as workmen that they can earn wages which will give them the liberty to continue their education if they like. If they do not want more education, they have at least the skill to command high wages anywhere. They do not have to go into our factories; most of them do because they do not know where better jobs are to be had - we want all our jobs to be good for the men who take them. But there is no string tied to the boys. They have earned their own way and are under obligations to no one. There is no charity. The place pays for itself.”
One of the greatest examples of vertical integration in the history of manufacturing .
Must be THE greatest. What possible competition does The Rouge have ?
What a boring job. I worked assembling jet engines for a couple years. It was different in that a team of two worked on the same engine the whole shift. There was usually an inspector for two teams. After a couple years it bored the hell out of me, everyone thought I was crazy to quit because it was a good paying job, but it really wasn’t after I moved.
Yeah. But they decided it is more efficient after all to buy materials from people who specialize, and compete to offer the best price. Otherwise everyone would do it this way.
@@justforever96 Yeah but, that school of economics provides false economy. For the sake of getting parts a bit cheaper, the social costs are enormous as a nation's workforce is laid off and no longer retains its training. Institutional memory is lost. Factories are little more than final assembly points for stuff that others made. National security is lost because we are dependent on foreign suppliers.
Case in point, Iran is what we used to be 50-60 years ago in terms of self-sufficiency and vertical integration. U.S. sanctions forced Iran to develop its own inhouse manufacturing. Now they have a large highly skilled workforce and the people are direct contributors to their country's strength. Their young people are engaged in useful pursuits instead of rotting away in Mom's basement, flipping burgers, doing Door Dash for people too lazy to get their own food, or pecking on keyboards - pretending that the internet is as real as Ford's River Rouge plant.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi Well said. Henry Ford is rolling in his grave
My dad was a machinery hauler, and I can remember riding in the truck with dad and occasionally going into the plant to deliver parts to many of the Ford plants in the mid 1970's. The main plant we visited was the Woodhaven Plant that was built in 1964 as a state of the art stamping plant in its day. I couldn't believe the size of the presses back then. And how quickly they filled a parts rack.
Woodhaven is down to about 400 employees from 6000 in the Early seventies.
We need more videos like this- inspirational!
Amazing plant and vision by a guy named Henry Ford. That 30 minutes went by fast, great overview with lots of details like 3-layered safety glass and basic chem lessons!
He had help from the surviving nazis after Hitler was killed
Not to be too much of a sniggler, but safety glass is tempered and shatters into tiny gravel like pieces. Three layered glass is called laminated and when broken, creates very nasty shards that are highly likely to create lacerations. Very dangerous to human eyes.
Another amazing film about when we built things here. Just think if our country was like this once again how amazing it would be.
Cars would probably cost twice as much though.
@@larrygroThe Australian government destroyed our car industry in Australia. Hundreds of thousands of people lost good jobs and Chinese cars cost more than an Australian built Ford that would last 20 years.
As lazy as Americans are, do you really want think buying something that is “Made in the USA” is a higher quality product?
went on a school tour around 1968 WOW seeing the steel rolling red hot great day ended up working at Ford it was very hard work earn our money for sure.
Where you at one of the Wayne plant's on Mich. Ave.?
Went on the elementary school "field trip" to the Rouge, probably about the same time line 68-69.
You would walk along a catwalk, high above the activity going on below, for an excellent view.
My memories are the intense heat watching those ingots get rolled, and how the water falling on them, seemed to turn black as it rolled off the steel.
How those guys did that job, day after day in that heat is phenomenal. Nobody wants to work like that today.
Exactly why I always got hot when people talked about union workers being lazy. I started at Ford Cleveland Casting Plant in 2000 with 200 people. After 3 weeks we were down to 170 people. People were going to lunch and not coming back...... Now it was a summer job but still.... we had 3 months of steady work at good pay. I was bringing home $900 a week once we got done with training and were on the line. And there were asking me to work over..... there was another summer worker on the next line.... at 8 hours he was going home, and they couldn't "make" him work the whole shift when the line was working 9 hours. So they would ask me to work out his last hour (our line started and finished an hour earlier). I was in my early 20's...... I would get in the locker room, and sit down for a few minutes and rest, to get the energy back to get my coveralls off.
Terrific film! The amount of work involved for making just one car, weather by people or machines is just amazing. Its all the more reason why old cars need to be preserved and restored whenever and wherever possible!
retroolschool Exactly mate but these modern car lovers will never get it.
Part of old schooling was the demand that you learn how to read and write proper English spelling, including homophones, even those that use the same letters, with and without apostrophes.
I remember those old cars you speak of from back when several decades of them rolled out, new. Smelly, smoggy,, cheap crackly plastic interiors, paint that faded and cracked unless you kept wax on it and dirt off of it. Frames with surface rust before the car had time to reach a dealer.
"Cash for Clunkers" ... Thanks Alot, Obama!!!!
Back in the day, the Rouge plant was an excellent example of a fully-integrated manufacturing facility: Ore went in one end of the factory, and finished autos came out the other end.
MrShobar we dug that iron ore out in northern Michigan. the iron mines closed and the U.P. economy bottomed. i left in 82 like many others. life is not the same
Back in the day, that is how America ran. The big companies bought up the best suppliers to better control the flow. Take GM, they bought New Departure bearings and Hyatt bearings, their two bearing supplier companies. These were later merged to become NDH bearing, a GM company.
......and the total destruction of the great lakes in the bargain!
@@bradjames6748 BWAHAHAHAHAHA
@@bradjames6748 baloney
Back in 1962 me and my parents took a tour through this plant. and also visited The Henry Ford Museum and Green Field Village ,I was only ten years old at that time
I've been there four times, it's definitely a must see and a National Treasure
My grandfather, Robert E. Houston, was an senior manager for FMC from 1920-1965. He was number one at the River Rouge steelmill at some point…
i toured this plant so many times back in the 60's
In my opinion the model T wasn’t the most amazing thing Henry Ford did, building the factory was. Many machines had to be invented, machines that did exist had to be built better to keep up with production, so many problems needed solutions and the biggest achievement keeping a business that big profitable. Im a small business owner so I know how numbers work with business. A business that big is very hard to keep profitable. Just one wrong decision could destroy a business. So many car businesses sublet a lot of work out to avoid many financial problems it’s just amazing Henry was able to keep such a massive business running.
Ford River Rouge itself was a Titan
He didn’t do any of that, engineers. Ford was a Nazi anti Jew
And edsel
Unions ruined the US manufacturing base.
@@dannymccarty344There are a lot of reasons for decline. Not just the union.
To organize the systems and get them up and running would of been a super headache. Ford must of been a crazy workaholic. All that engineering to shave seconds and pennies. Just amazing. Just amazing.
Seconds and Pennies add up when you’re talking many thousands of units….
a lot of exceptional engineering went into the plant just look at the tooling and the men behind them.
The tooling fascinates me more than the finished product. Think of all he engineering that went into the equipment needed to transform the raw materials into finished components. Amazing.
Jack Kallemdjian Great engineering.
g bridgman yes but those days are long gone.
That’s the reason the drinking water in Detroit is so tainted.
@@davidcarlin3850 Yeah, just let China run and make everything, they seem like they'll be a great super power.
Fascinating video. My grandpa died on this complex in a propane pipeline explosion in 1967. He and the crew he was working with were starting construction of a steel mill when the piledriver that he was operating struck the pipeline. Are there any former employees that remember this?
I think this is the same accident that my Uncle Danny died from. I was named after him. His name was Daniel Sutton.
we really need this back so bad
What do you mean need it back ? It’s still there and still makeing vehicles. They are makeing F150 truck there right now.
@@gregsmith4210 are they still bringing rock in the back door and cars and trucks out the front as in this video..i know cars are being made but not in this manner...by the way you are spelling MAKING wrong
What do you mean? Is this plant closed?
Nope, let the Chinese do it.
All raw materials were made here for the autos to be manufactured. Not everything outsourced like now and brought to the auto assembly plant.
When we used to make things here mostly outsourced now.
Awesome to see
Dave if I could hit the "like" button a hundred times I surely would. Being a model railroad enthusiast I really enjoyed the videos of the model trains. Seeing the torpedo was pretty cool too. Wish we could have seen the inside of that sub. Thanks Dave for the wonderful videos.
Those people are amazing.
Hard working Americans.
A breed of their own.
All union men.
@Lyle Grandersom Things won't happen sitting on your ass.
@Lyle Grandersom your generation can't even change a flat tire.
The millennial generation is too afraid to work! Soon they will have to eat their college text books to survive because the hard working generations are dying off and the jobs are heading out of the country. But their degree may taste pretty good with some ketchup, if they can afford to buy it 😩
@Lyle Grandersom u probably think ur better than most ppl ..bet u would no how to do any of this work yet turn on the machin
So many of these assembly tasks are now done with automation as opposed to human hands. On the other hand, having spent my career in a Ford assembly plant, I'm surprised at how many tasks are performed exactly as they were 60 years ago.
I think the most amazing thing (which they didn't really explain) is how all the _exact_ right components come together at the right place to build each individual car. Some can be done by just keeping a stock of the various different components to hand where they will be assembled, but I see that they ship the bodies to final assembly after painting, and then they install the fenders and things. They need to have the correctly colored fenders, hood, truck lid, and wheels available for the exact car they need to assemble them onto. That is pretty amazing. And of course you want the exact correct engine and transmission, the right axle, etc.
Exactly! And this crazy "just in time" supply that works wonders in Japan because all parts manufacturers work down the street from eachother is showing not to work in the US when parts mnfrs are in different states. The US Navy needs to get with this idea and realize that in wartime "Just In Time" doesn't work. You need pre positioned supply and ammo dumps. The enemy kills your just in time supply chain with torpedoes, bombs and rockets.
some things you just can't put a price on... mad respect for everyone who was involved -
This is the generation That Built America, the greatest country on Earth.
What an amazing story and achievement. When you realize the amount of energy, man hour and resources , it makes the total cost more understandable.
A great video again! Thanks A/V Geeks channel :') keep it up
Self contained and self sufficient! I hear that most of the activities seen in this amazing facility are outsourced today. So sad!
Why? Do other country's not deserve money too? Or should they just live in severe poverty while Americans have everything.
@@JakePlisskin12 Why do other countries need our help to prosper?
@@JakePlisskin12 that job is best left to the other country's leaders. Of a country is poor look at it's leaders. It's Not the job of the rich countries to keep propping up the poor countries. Unless you believe in the one world government.
@@MisterMikeTexas. Because we make up 3% of the world’s population. Why limit yourself to your own small family, so to speak.
Watch this video backwards if you want to know how to disassemble a car.
Lol
To see our auto industry dis assembled, see the Democrats.
@@freemarketjoe9869 good boorning!
WOW , flash back. As a retired mechanic and as a kid I remember these cars. I’ve owned 3 fords over the years all F series pickups. My first was a 1962 F-100 with a 292 Y block. Then the next was a 1970 F-250 with a 390 FE motor. Now I have a 1972 F-150 4X4 with a FE-390 4 barrel carb. Seeing those FE motors coming off the line was something. I’ve worked on a lot of FE motors over the years, that was and is a good engine.
Love this what amazes me are the machines built to do this work, just mind blowing 🤯
How about the guy at 23:40 with the guy wearing a space suit grinding on that car.could you imagine doing that for 8 or 10 hours.I wouldn’t last an hour.
The shift in hard working conditions are not 8-10 hours... and we have no idea what is your general physicality, age or health.
Absolutely amazing!
Fucking mind blowing!
Makes me appreciate my easy Factory job I have.
Seeing how the process of steel is made is very interesting, never thought much about a metal that is still widely used to this day. The assembly parts of the vehicle then sure had a lot of people compared to now, mainly advanced robotics.
@redoubt south doesn't know The Rouge is still running, pumping out F-150's. I pass by it every day. Yeah, and Ford is still in business. Crazy stuff, I know! We even have plumbing and electricity up here in ol' Michigan.
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Yes, and let's keep it that way!
Wots plumbing an electrikery, new one on meself now.
Indoor?
Unfortunately, due to new laws ol' Michigan is gonna be known for a new industry. Good luck building a better car while stoned.
Impressive is an understatement. People are amazing. Throw a bunch of 'em into the USA and just watch what they can accomplish.
The organization and cooperation this shows is amazing. You can tell the people really care about their work. They have a great work ethic.
Simply amazing! The true definition of American mite in the motor city. I wish I could of toured that place in its hay day. I'm a proud auto worker so it's very cool seeing the old days before all this technology junk we have to work with now.
So I've worked with both a little bit. Large basic machines are difficult to work on for their own reasons.
Great to see how car glass is made. Respect to all the hardworking workers. 18:00 ... best part of the film ! God save the V8.
this is America to me....a power house of industry
William, That is what the U.S.A. used to be, before our wonderful politicians and the tree huggers sold us out to China. We can't use coal, they want to phase that out because it makes our air, water and environment dirty! (Cough, Gag). Also, it could ruin the land and drive out or kill the species of "THE HARRY CHESTED NUT SCRATCHER".This is the America that we used to have. The America that i truly miss. Now we buy most of our goods overseas. This was the TOUGH America before all of our kids grew up with such thin skin. If you criticize someone today, they run off crying to find a lawyer and sue you over speaking ones mind. Now we are all racists and homiphobes if we disagree even if you aren't one. They like to say that because they like to use our courts to shut people up. We can't have decent opinions today. I believe in live and let live. They don't. We now have speech police. And because all these kids who grew up believing that they should still get a trophy even if they lose, even if they did a bad job. I don't believe in racism. I see us as humans, Americans. Together we stand, divided we fall. Well, we are all put in separate groups. That is the "divided we fall" part. The only group we should have is Americans. We are all part of the human race. America was never perfect, but it's our home. It's the best place to live! I love God. I love this country, and I'm thankful for all of the people who gave their lives defending our right to be free.
Now its full of pussies and othet country's will fuck us in the end after all whats a pussy good for
@@dez1989 [BIG APPLAUSE] Well said, sir!
Look at those clean machines come off the assembly line! Great to see REAL cars again.
@ 26:05 I always wanted to find the guy who installed that almost impossible to remove top bolt in my starters out of my Ford cars back in the day
It's easy when it's all out of the car.
My grandpa George sorrell worked here from 55-00
Dammm he put in 55 years ?!
@@tjlovesrachel ... Typically, when you subtract 55 from 100, the result is 45.
J W yes sorry typo... but still 45 years is an impressive length of service
RYLEIGH SIMS that’s what’s up man... you typically don’t see that ... like my dad worked for the railroad for 37 years ... started when he was 19... and stayed until he hit the minimum age to retire.
My grandpa came from Oklahoma in 55 walked 12 miles from the greyhound station had a job that day at Cadillac worked there few months got a better job at Ford eventually became skilled trade Roll turner
That video reminded me my college time.
It was absolutely the same at MOSKWICH auto factory in 70-s & 80-s.
This may have something to do with fact that Soviets copied Henry Ford ideas how to build a factory(not only car factory)... Ford trucks and cars were also copied, they loved to copy his ideas and didn't care that he hated all communists... LoL
@@Bialy_1
You forget, that all people are made from the same dough. Chack Jordan (GM Vice President of design) once said: "MONKEY BUSINESS, MONKEY SEE,--MONKEY DO..."
Remember SATURN the joint venture TOYOTA-GM. Americans had to copy Japany's way of design & manufacturing...
Hey, Double LOLLLLL .
No one mortal man changed this country like 'ol Henry did , he was a modern marvel and Guinness.
@Michael Kern bullshit , somebody else woulda been there to hold him back , those greedy leaches were more of a hindrance than a help , you know nothing about it . Henry was fully capable of taking the raw materials from the earth and making a finished product .
"Guinness" was the guy who made stout in Ireland
There’s bound to be a guy like “Bob” in every comments section. It’s a shame, cause morons like him flood good conversations.
@@sickboy3636 , talk about morons , thats your contribution to "good conversation" , you offer less than nothing only some punk mouth slag , you truly are sick ...that pea brain of yours that is .
@@bobsaturday4273 ... There's always a surplus of pea brains who disparage those who can read and take the time to gently nudge poor writing in the right direction.
I have had read the book ' Crome Colossus" The oxygen lance, used by Japan, was quite amazing. Thank you.
Amazing to see raw materials going in one end and a finished product coming out the other end. Now its just a bunch of Made in Mexico or China junk being dropped off for final assembly. Really sad what has happened to American industry
Nope, let the Chinese do it
If you don't want Chinese junk stop buying it.
@@oldbatwit5102 Good luck with that.
@@andybaldman Lol, yeah.
Oldbatwit really? Don’t have much choice,
wish I could visit all this ,amazing
Sanford Graham Me to brother me to.
You can. The Rouge is now called DTP (Dearborn Truck Plant) where they build F150's. You get tickets at The Henry Ford Museum and they take you there by bus.
I wish they made educational films like this today, everything seems so dumbed down now, loved the way they made the stamping tools, can anybody tell me if these are still made like this or is at all done by CNC?
The assembly line must have been extremely noisy and unfortunately many of the workers must have had hearing loss. My father worked for thirty seven years in a U.K. Shipbuilding Yard and now has severe industrial deafness.
I worked in a Ford casting plant, the noise and vibration was so much you could feel it in your bones, and you couldn't have a conversation because the vibration would distort your speech. It was a summer job, but my father and grandfather retired from there. To this day I can't stand loud noise.
Those V8 engines being produced are based off the 352 block and likely either a 352, 360, or 390 judging by the 2-bbl carburetors.
In 6 grade living michigan our school class went on a tour of rouge in 1964
I'll never forget
True definition of American Muscle ! Wow fascinating
14:49 imagine hammering camshafts off a mold 8 hours a day for 40 years.
I dont think Id arm wrestle that guy
Specific jobs would rotate according to your performance on the line
Jobs were bid by seniority as they opened up. And if someone on day shift on the same job had lower seniority, you could bump them to night shift. So the more seniority you had, you could keep working up to better jobs. My dad before he retired was "relief man"..... he gave people their breaks. He had to be able to do every job on the line, but didn't have to work the whole shift unless they were short people. Breaks started 2 hours in, and ended 2 hours before the end of the shift.
Interesting, no robots, thousands of people employed compaired to today's plants and you could buy the car shown for less than $2000 USD. I am reminded of the story of the conversation between a union leader and car company exucutive when one of the first robots were installed... The exucutive said, "See this one robot will replace 30 men and it works 24/7 with no breaks." He then told the Union leader, "I'd like to see you sell it a union card." The union leader said, "I'd like to see you sell it a car."
jamesdond1 And cars used to be made out of metal nowadays they're made out of plastic.
@Danyil Underwood - Yep, new cars are overpriced junk. I still drive cars from the 40's to the 70's. I am restoring a 1970 Lincoln Continental. I have a 1959 Mercury Parklane, have a 1959 Lincoln, 1950 Mercury, 1977 Lincoln as far as Ford Motor Company cars go. I also have other makes as well. I am spraying the 1970 Lincoln with candy apple red metallic lacquer here ruclips.net/video/DRHFxpCW2LE/видео.html
@Danyil Underwood Bellevue WA, Lowes pays $16 dollar per hours for appliance delivery, can't find people to work on the job. manufacturing job are coming back for sure, the proof is right next door to my current company production plant in NC, there is a new manufacturing plant building. btw, my current company made food products, fully automatic line with tons of robot/machines, still employed 2 shift 1200 people, and talking about adding a third shift, pays for average production line worker is 40-50k per year. screw the union. I used to worked for supermarket in my high school year, every paycheck is 80 dollars, the government took 25, the union took 10, and I can't op out, the union is the curse of this country, get rid of them for good. My college is GMI, had been heard countless story about union ghost worker, they DOT the big 3 billions each year, while honda and toyota plant in US are reinvesting themselves. big 3 has other problems, but the union did contribute to their downfall.
@@CJColvin you don't know what your talking about , today's are stronger and more heavily built in the right places, which would you rather crash a fifties car or a 2022 car
@Big Ears For me I would rather drive in a 50s, 60s, or early 70s car than in a overpriced plastic eggshell on wheels mate.
An amazing place and time in American history. I remember driving by this place as a young man and being both fascinated and glad I didn't have to work there.
Growing up I lived in Dearborn MI and I visited the Rouge around 1970. As a 11 year old boy, that makes one heck of an impact on you. Today my daily driver is my 89 year old Ford pickup truck.
WOW!! just amazing
The Rouge is still open. Still makes trucks. All has not been lost.
good to hear it's still operating I thought it was done
And trucks are a sure thing. I hope that place goes on forever. So much history,.
No bridge shut down messing up this plants production! Freedom forever!
It's very interesting what kind of music sounds at 6.40. I met her in a German industrial chronicle of the 1940s.
Love that old films
Worked in a steel mill back home in Chesapeake, Virginia, from the melt shop foundry to the standards and testing kab. Remember it wel.
My Grandfather opened our family business in 1957, Fontaine Glass Inc, here in San Jose, Calif, so the part in this vid I enjoyed the most is obviously the glass manufacturing. Although we never made any of our own glass, we've installed countless windshields,, back glass, quarter glass, and door glass in Fords over the years. Aside from the periods of time I spent overseas, serving in Afghanistan, I've been a glass installer at the shop, blue collar, working with my hands while being surrounded by this Silicon Valley bullshit and these liberal bastards. Anyway, I only own Fords, a 1945 Ford Jeep, and a 1974 Ford Bronco torque monster, so I really enjoyed and appreciate this vid, thanks for uploading it.
Was IT tempered back then?
Why call the Silicone Valley pussies Liberals? It's the Republicans who don't want to get their manicured fingertips dirty, by only wanting to work in the office world, work 2 hours a day and then spend their lunch afternoon's on the golf course. None of those Silicone Valley cunts want to put in a good 8 hours of work like other blue collar worker's. Besides, those Silicone Valley pussies HATE the working class of people in America, as do ALL REPUBLICANS.
I guess you never put your hands on a Bible, or attended church in you're life. If you did either, you would find that Jesus would be considered a liberal by your standards.
Jesus healed the sick, made the blind see again, made the deaf hear again, healed the lame and diseased, because he believed in health care for all. Jesus made the poor, wealthy in heart and spirit. Jesus made a lit lantern burn forever on a few drops of lantern oil. Jesus fed 5 thousand on a few fish and two loaves of bread. Today, asshole conservatives like you would call that free and plentiful food a Government subsidized Welfare handout. And another thing GOP asshole, did you do the conservative thing by returning your Liberal Democrat President's Covid stimulus relief check? Betcha you couldn't cash it fast enough so you could buy more tattoos, beer, cigarettes, porn book's, Fuck Biden flags, and more Orange Face Clown's red hat's. Yet you hate 'Liberals", and gloriously ride on the apron strings, and coat tails of the "Liberal" Government leaders who pass bills to help those in our country who need financial, emotional, and food help. How many Conservative Farmer's hold their hands out, hold their red MAGA hat's out upside down, looking for Government subsidies to keep their farm's open, and getting FREE money for not growing certain crops every year. Yeah, you fucking asshole, dick licking Conservatives blame the Liberal Democrats for doing what you asswipes take advantage of behind the scene's, didn't think of yourselves, but gosh darn, oh Billy Bob gee wizz, you are the first people to stand in front of the line for free food, free money 💰 and take advantage of the rich money tax loop holes 🕳 the IRS gives you.
So before you point your middle finger to the "Liberals", send your Covid stimulus check back to Liberal President Joe Biden - with interest, and then call yourself a 'TRUE" Conservative. Not just act like a Conservative when it is convenient for you to say you are - Shithead.....
For all the good it did. Look at the place now. Look at the country now. All gone...and for what...so a few people could have more wealth then they could spend in a hundred lifetimes.
I worked at the ford gouge plant .I was working for nickelson dock and terminal and we went to the Ford plant to work on Ford's ships. The benson the Henry and the breach. Did work on the hatch coamings where the buckets would hit as the cranes unloaded iron ore pellets from the ship. Did some repair on the hull of one of the vessels. They are called vessels not boat. I was 19 years old at the time I'm 60 years old now.
Just an FYI, you might be interested in.......The Benson Ford still sails , and still delivers taconite to the Rouge plant, with the name "Kaye E Barker". Ford's ships were sold off to Interlake Steamship Co. in 1989ish
@@tonyk8592 I believe the Benson Ford was turned into a house years ago.
The car headed down the production line is a 1962 Fairlane.
Back when America was great, everyone working hard
Shoot, we couldn't even make the video like this in America anymore.
The title is in cursive, The tree huggers would freak out, and the Global Warming crowd would go into full seizures.
Lol work ethic dick wag... But of course back when people actually made a wage and inflation wasn't high!!
There's virtually no incentive to work hard today it's turned into a big joke!!
@@American-Motors-Corporation I wouldn't say there's no incentive, just that those at the top have been steadily increasing their share of my sweet sweet man thigh pie, especially since Ronlad Raegagean was the POT-C-US of United Airlines. That, plus the obvious trend of automation has created the conditions necessary for a candidate like Andrew Yang. Something must be done for sure, otherwise there could be some sort of workers revolution. Those sort of things are ugly and uncomfortable for most involved, so hopefully we can adjust our course without something like that becoming necessary. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. On the other hand, there is the eternal bloodlust of the tree of liberty. I wonder what will happen.
@@uncle_nightmare as far as the government's rigged census bureau goes yeah I don't really care what they say their numbers are skewed there's a reason why they let you see them because they only let you see what they want you to know!!
@@uncle_nightmare also there's a situation to where at one point in time such as the 1960s you could make less than $16,000 a year and still own a home still raise the family inflation wasn't that bad hell my own grandmother talked about going to the grocery store with $8 and coming out with two cartloads of groceries!!
Its so funny to move to Detroit and see that most of the people around me are stuck in the 70’s. Which is appropriate since that is the last time the Big3 made a decent car.
Excellent piece of history. Really shows factory work ain't for sissy's.
Thank you very much for uploading.
Sound comes back on @ 17:30
Back when America was great!
....did ya see the 2V - FE big block intake manifold on the introduction ?....
Ford always made their own auto glass. Other manufacturers just purchased from outside manufacturers.
Chrysler had a glass plant at McGraw and Wyoming, not too far from Ford's.
Libby-Owens-Ford for GM. "LOF"
Just about the time that this film was made all of Ford's glass plant became obsolete. Float glass, in which a continuous ribbon of glass is laid down on a bed of molten tin, needed no expensive grinding or polishing. Float glass is a perfect example of the Rouge plant's terminal weakness: it couldn't adapt to new technology. Integrated manufacturing, in which raw materials become finished products all under one roof, exists mostly in history books now.
I wonder what happened to parts of the audio track that were missing?
Fantastic,thank you for the post
I grew up near this plant. Some days it smelled horrible. So bad I can't even describe it. It's incredibly huge and complex.
Henry Ford. The first man that got America on the move.
I was surprised to see that the bodies were hand sprayed and not dipped in a paint bath. It must have been hard to not get "orange peel". We visited the plant in 1972, they were making the "Sprint" edition Mustangs. My Dad bought a 62 Fairlane new (I was 4 years old) - he only kept it 3 years, as it had 13 inch wheels and rode hard.
Unlike manufactures of the day,Ford made his own steel for his cars
They skipped most of the steps. They jump from installing pistons into the new block and some bearings, to showing them tossing an assembled engine onto a test stand. Then right to glass production. Frames? Upholstery? Do they produce their own switchgear and instruments? Trim pieces? Lights? Axles and driveshafts?
Anyone see the old style key that the car was cranked with?
Real and respectable men and women.
The music for this!
Did you ever buy a Ford in the 60's? We had a 1967 Ford Country Squire and a 1970 Galaxy 500. Both cars rusted into dust in a matter of a couple of years. It was common knowledge that there were issues in the Ford Paint Plant, but it was cheaper to send out an inferior product than correct the core issue. Now they wonder why their customers are driving Honda's and Toyota's.
But old American cars are perfect! The reason the Japanese came into the market and whooped their asses was just a liberal conspiracy to destroy the country! (Sarcasm)
All cars rusted out then. There wasn't the galvanized steel process being used yet and by the mid 70s cheep Japanese steel was dumped here and used.
@@alextallen8019 They couldn't have been any worse than the Datsun pickups and the Chevy LUV I had.
Between my parents, my sisters, and me, we had a total of 6 between '61 and '85. No rust problems on any of them. And only minor mechanical issues over 25 years.
My dad had a Fiat 128 in the 70s. The car was like 6 years old and the frame broken in half from rust. It was a front wheel drive and he would tell me the car flexed when he accelerated.
Where was the computer room
Lot of hard workers, probably long past. Rest in peace.
i wonder if Ford still makes its own glass...anybody out there know?..that ford being made looked to be a '61...that film was fascinating
I have heard Ford always has 3 sources of supply for everything. Have you seen LOF {Libby, Owens. and Ford). WWII the gov. asked Ford if he could build bombers. Ford said, "One an hour." He built a plant one mile long, with his own money, and built the B-24 Liberator.
@@rcsu8916 Charles Sorensen designed the Willow Run Bomber Plant and set the final production rate at one per hour - not Henry Ford or Edsel Ford.
@@buckhorncortez ... true, but would not and could not have happened without Henry Ford
No but they still manufacturijg all of it domestically. They have a plant in Holland owned and run by MAGNA who makes the glass for the F150s.
simply amazing
Genius at work. Amen.
would like to see 60s and early 70s muscle cars being built
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Scott Wiler Same here brother.