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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Henry's HenryJs on January 07, 2012, 12:17:08 AM

Title: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: Henry's HenryJs on January 07, 2012, 12:17:08 AM

http://www.dump.com/2011/07/15/fascinating-1936-footage-of-car-assembly-line-video/

Title: Re: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: Orphanauto on January 07, 2012, 10:33:40 AM

WOW, that was cool. thanks for sharing. I REALLY enjoyed that.

Title: Re: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: dpledger on January 07, 2012, 10:53:08 PM

Amazing for the era-the first Ford line looked nothing like this. One can understand what it was that Admiral Yamamoto saw on his visit here in this era that led him to tell the Japanese high command that they could not in the long term prevail against the US. And right he was.

Title: Re: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: Jim B PEI on January 08, 2012, 01:16:18 PM

And what is very interesting to remember as well, that the post-war Japanese success at building cars and other products faster and cheaper was due to....an American!
Can't remember the name offhand, but I'm sure I could fins it with 10-15 minutes of Google or Wikipedia searching.

Title: Re: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: boatingbill on January 08, 2012, 03:37:54 PM

I believe you are referring to John Laurtenian (can't spell last name correctly) who went to Japan
from Pontiac. He had a quality control system that Detroit rejected and Japan embraced. It changed
the quality and production of their cars dramatically.

Title: Re: 1936 footage of a car assembly line
Post by: Logan on February 13, 2012, 04:33:15 PM

Good footage.  Looks like 37 Chevy if I'm not wrong.