A 1948 Ford Motor Company Film Featuring Every Major Manufacturing & Assembly Plant In The World

This 1948 Promotional and Educational Dealer Film produced by Ford Motor Company shows every major manufacturing plant that Ford was operating around the world. The movie starts out with the Earnest R. Breech telling just how this film was made and the extradentary efforts that it took for each of these facilities to film and then get those films back to Ford in Dearborn. Don't skip the beginning or you will miss out on how some of these films were smuggled through customs!
Here is all that you will see:
Ernest R. Breech speaking behind podium, explaining film about to be shown - map of world - New York City skyline - view of Tishman Building in New York City - views of Highland Park plant - map of world - views of Ford of Canada in Windsor - view inside Ford of Canada, powerhouse, foundry, press shop, assembly operations, shipping and crating - truck hauling large crate in Bombay - views of Ford Motor Company of India, assembly line, laborers - globe - aerial views of Wellington, New Zealand - view of Ford plant in Wellington, assembly lines, workers - close-up of Mr. Jackson, Ford manager in New Zealand, driving tractor labeled, ‘The 2,000th Fordson Major off the line -- 1948’ off assembly line - tractors outside plant - tractor in hilly field - map of Australia showing Ballarat, Geelong, and Melbourne - view of Melbourne Bay - view of Ford plant at Geelong - views inside Australian plant, uncrating, assembling - map of Australia showing Sydney - aerial view of Sydney - view of Ford plant - assembly line inside plant - Fords outside plant - map of Australia showing Brisbane - views of Brisbane and Ford plant - map of Australia showing Perth - views of Perth and Ford plant - map of Australia showing Adelaide - view of Adelaide and Ford plant - sign, ‘Ford Motor Company of Malaya Limited, Singapore’ - views of Singapore - views of Ford plant, inside and out - globe - views of Port Elizabeth, South Africa - views of Ford’s South African plant. Views inside and outside of the Belgian Ford plant - views of Cork, Ireland - views inside and out of Cork Ford plant - views of Lisbon, Portugal - view inside and out of Portuguese Ford plant - views of Barcelona, Spain - views inside and out of Barcelona Ford plant - view of Italian fruit cake - still view of Italian Ford plant - views of Alexandria, Egypt - views inside and out of Egyptian Ford plant - views of new Alexandrian Ford plant under construction - views of London, England - views inside and out of Dagenham Ford plant - Plant Map of Europe - view of Helsingfors (Helsinki) - views inside and out of Finnish Ford - views of Stockholm, Sweden - Ford plant in Stockholm under construction - views of Copenhagen, Denmark - views inside and out of Danish Ford plant - views of Amsterdam, Holland - views inside and out of Dutch Ford plant - views of Antwerp, Belgium - Views in South African Ford plant, assembly, service stock, cutting and sewing department - Ford of Canada - map of world - Chester Ford plant - workers boxing parts - close-up of Fred Sickle - crating - crane loading crates - Mr. Harris, manager of Edgewater plant, and men talking - close-up of paper work - men crating cars - crane loading crate on ship - view of Edgewater plant on Hudson River - globe - views of Mexico City - views of Ford plant at Mexico City - views inside Mexico City plant, office, stock area, assembly - views of Sao Paulo, Brazil - Ford plant in Sao Paulo - views of Buenos Aires, Argentina - Ford plant in Buenos Aires - views of Montevideo, Uruguay - Ford plant in Montevideo - views of Santiago, Chile - Ford plant in Santiago - view of Yokahama, Japan - view of idle Ford plant in Yokahama - map of Europe - views of Paris - street scenes in Poissy - views of Ford plant at Poissy - inside plant at Poissy - map of Germany - views of Cologne, Germany - views inside and out of Cologne Ford plant.

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

Built between 1917 and 1922, the Fordson tractor advanced mechanized agriculture away from draft horses and mules (such as the Ford Model T advanced transportation). In order to consolidate its core automotive businesses, Ford sold its tractor operation to FIAT in 1991. Under the arrangement, New Holland was allowed to use Ford branding for a limited time until around the year 2000.

[@kensmithgallery4432]

That's pretty cool info!

[@larrysnow135]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@dennisgriffey8448]

Cool video!

[@kensmithgallery4432]

Thanks!

[@nlpnt]

Quite apart from tariffs and protectionism or the lack thereof, in 1948 it was physically no harder to load a crated CKD kit ("Completely Knocked Down") onto a ship than a completed car. Sometime in the 1960s that changed with oceangoing "Ro-Ro" (roll on, roll off) ships where cars completed to the point of being drivable can be, and are driven on board and driven off just as they would be from a river or lake ferry.

[@kensmithgallery4432]

That is a great talking point! Thanks for commenting and for watching!

[@MrRobster1234]

Ernest Breech at the end. Stabbed in the back by Henry the 2nd.

[@kensmithgallery4432]

Thanks for watching!

[@williamforbes5826]

Around the world in 80 days. Harrumph! I just went 'round the world in 30 minutes!

[@kensmithgallery4432]

The India plant got me. Seeing people work in shorts and sandals. Crazy!

[@williamforbes5826]

@@kensmithgallery4432 Shorts and sandals is the south Florida retirement uniform! Everyone wears them! From grumpy grandpa to wheezing geezers!

[@kensmithgallery4432]

@@williamforbes5826 I believe it! Heck I wear shorts just about every day of the year, even in winter here in the mountains of East Tennessee. When I lived in Colorado, it was no different there either!

[@williamforbes5826]

@@kensmithgallery4432 What part of Colorado? I have driven across US-50 and all of the Interstate highways in Colorado. I particularly like the ride through Glenwood Canyon. And the state as a whole is quite spectacular.

[@kensmithgallery4432]

@williamforbes5826 I lived in the mountains in a small town called Bailey, off of US 285 and lived in Castle Rock off of I-25. Then it got too everything else but what Colorado was for us and we relocated to East Tennessee in 2019

[@davidsearle2274]

Great to see Wellington New Zealand Ford plant, GM stopped making cars for right hand drive. Ford are making right hand drive Mustangs in USA and exporting all around the world,No wonder why the company is so successful.

[@kensmithgallery4432]

I was amazed at how many factories and assembly plants Ford had.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

No matter what language you speak, a Ford is Freaking Old Rebuilt Dodge

[@kensmithgallery4432]

Nah, you mean First On Race Day :-)