Designers usually get all the credit for the cars we love, but the real geniuses were the tooling and manufacturing engineers that designed the equipment and processes that made it all happen!
Man, those guys had to stay alert at all times, Watching the guy pull the panels out of the press, they had to be quick. HRP
I hope you all noticed that at the end you can go on to "How The Model A Ford Engine Was Built; The Engine ***embly Line".
Thanks atch, I meant to add that video to this thread and got side tracked, thanks for bringing it up. HRP
Great stuff, Danny! Just amazing how labor intensive the process was. Hand rachets, hand fitting body panels with teams of people at each station. Bet the guy who crawled through cowls all day was sore at night.
I’ve been able to watch some of those giant presses when I’ve delivered steel coils to a couple of stamping plants. The machine is a marvel in itself. They are all robotic now, they have arms that reach in and pull the panels, the raw steel is fed from the coil and is stamped and cut in the same process. Some of them are quite loud, others just a small bump sound. The job I would have hated to do was the foundry. Hot, hot, hot! Those guys really had to be alert! A side note, most of the film from that era is replayed at about 1 1/2 speed, that’s why it looks as everyone is in a rush. Sure, they had to work fast, but not quite as fast as it looks on the film.
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