Showing posts with label automobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automobile. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Ford 1953 Customline Country Sedan

There's always room for one more in a FORD Ranch Wagon!

Now four Ford quick-change artists … and each with the smooth, agile “Go” of Ford’s modern V-8 engine!
If your family’s young and rambling, you’ll find room aplenty in Ford’s new Mainline or Customline Ranch Wagons. Both are 6-passengers big, yet convert to cargo haulers by merely folding the “stowaway” seat into the floor. Ford also offers the 4-door, 8-passenger Country Squire and Country Sedan.
No matter which Ford “wagon” suits your needs, you may have the most modern V-8 engine in the industry (most modern Six, if you prefer) … new Ball-Joint Front Suspension … colorful new interiors … and a host of other “Worth More” advantages which make Ford your smartest station wagon to buy!
Worth More when you buy it … Worth More when you sell it!

My father-in-law had this number towed out of some guy’s garage when he bought it a few years back and got it running again. It had only 70,000 miles on it.

“We live miles from a shopping center which means a lot of hauling and a station wagon was essential for us.” … The Ford Country Sedan hauls a half ton with ease yet it converts into an 8-passenger sedan in seconds.
Source: The Saturday Evening Post

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Technique for Tomorrow


Seriously, though - how do you make a car?

So glad you asked.


Technique for Tomorrow
Ford Motor Company 1954

Brook Park, Ohio. This was once a farm, and now it is a factory building the world's automobiles.
"Following World War II, Ford built several production plants in the Cleveland area, making it a significant base for the company's operations. Ford's Brook Park complex, established between 1951-55, included a casting plant to make engine blocks, Engine Plant #1, and Engine Plant #2.

Ford also built the Walton Hills Stamping Plant in 1954 which fabricated steel bumpers, hoods, roofs, and quarter panels for the Ford assembly plants."
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Cleveland.com called the casting plant a "miserable place to work."

"In the summer months it was absolutely brutal," said David Day, who worked at the plant during the 1970s and 80s. "Some wise guy got to wearing a thermometer around his neck and would point gleefully as the temps rose above 110, 115 and higher."


DID YOU KNOW ..? From 1942-1946, Jesse Owens director of minority employment at Ford Motor Company in Detroit? Yes, he did.

Sources:
YouTube
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Cleveland.com
Answers.com