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Car Body Assembly Line at Ford's Highland Park Plant, circa 1914
Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department1913/1915
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
These workers install folding tops and side curtains to Model T bodies on a moving assembly line in Building H at Ford's Highland Park plant. By 1914, a Model T could be fully assembled in just over one and a half man-hours. The job took twelve and a half man-hours using stationary methods.
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- Title: Car Body Assembly Line at Ford's Highland Park Plant, circa 1914
- Creator: Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department
- Date: 1913/1915
- Location: United States, Michigan, Dearborn, United States, Michigan, Highland Park
- Subject Keywords: Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant, Assembly-line methods, Automobile factories, Automobile industry, Automobiles, Bodies (Land vehicle components), Mass production, Workers, Cars, Automobile parts, Touring cars, Automobile bodies, Photographic prints, Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: 84.1.1660.P.833.994
- Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company
- Invention: Model T
- Image ID: THF101705
- Field: Transportation
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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