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Workers Installing Engines on Ford Model T Assembly Line at Highland Park Plant, 1913
1913
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
One worker at Ford's Highland Park Plant connects a Model T driveshaft to its transmission, while another lowers an engine onto the chassis using a chain hoist. This 1913 assembly line was relatively crude -- workers pushed or pulled vehicles to each station. The next year, Ford would install chain-driven, moving assembly lines to improve efficiency and increase productivity.
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- Title: Workers Installing Engines on Ford Model T Assembly Line at Highland Park Plant, 1913
- Date: 1913
- Location: United States, Michigan, Highland Park
- Subject Keywords: Ford Motor Company. Highland Park Plant, Assembly-line methods, Automobile factories, Ford Model T automobile, Engines, Workers, Cars, Photographic prints, Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: 84.1.1660.P.833.99947
- Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company
- Invention: Model T
- Image ID: THF110856
- Field: Transportation
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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