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by OilyBill » Wed Sep 29, 2021 3:03 am
Three things to note:
A. Look at how the engines smoked when they were first started. Probably the rings were not seated until after the test drive was complete.
B. The paint process looks identical to the Model T Ford. They were not so much sprayed as they were applied with what looks like a garden hose nozzle, with the excess just dripping off to be reclaimed and reused.
C. The Dodge assembly line is NOT a complete moving assembly line. Parts are assembled at stationary positions, and finally taken to the moving assembly line where the actual car assembly starts. Look at the chassis assembly as an example.
The Ford assembly line moved from each subassembly right to the final assembly line. There were very few stationary work points in Model T production. The Ford plant was like a giant river with hundreds of little streams, all moving to join up with the assembly line. Every day the Ford plant moved 1,400,000 lbs. of parts through the plant, and hardly any of them ever stopped moving until they were rolled out the door. Then the next day, they did it ALL OVER AGAIN. You see the pictures of a day's production at Ford, but the thing to think about is that EVERY CAR WAS GONE THAT DAY! Ford never stored ANY cars. They left the factory and were immediately loaded on rail cars and shipped out. Watching the Dodge video, it is immediately apparent that there was a HUGE difference between the Ford assembly plant and the Dodge plant. And this was sometime in the 1920's, when the Ford plant was completely moving
And then I consider my little Brush Runabout, which was built in a plant with NO moving assembly lines, where each car was built at a station by a team of men, who then moved on to the next station, while the next set of parts was assembled at the station they had just left, for the next Brush Runabout. Some cars never GOT to be assembled on a moving assembly line.
