History relaxing assembly line video

almost zen like

 

Lot of interesting machinery going on there.
Snot shot at 2:16

 

Thanks for posting this Paul, it's pretty amazing all the automation that had developed since the early assembly lines. HRP

 

By most accounts working those assembly lines was brutal, but apparently there was never too much of a shortage of guys willing to try. When Henry Ford famously doubled the prevailing daily wage to $5 in the 1920s so many people stood in line to apply they had to use firehoses to break up the crowd, and this was in January, when it gets damn cold in Michigan.

Five bucks a day doesn't sound like much now but it's easily equivalent to a couple hundred bucks in today's funny money.

 

Wow, any assembly line footage I've seen from a Ford Factory seems way more intense and demanding. This Chev line seems so much more civilized! I wonder if the management pumped inscence throughout the facility and the workers got tofu breaks during the day? Or is it just the power of music?

 

Great video. I also didn't realize just how much mechanization had developed as early as 1936.

 

I was also amazed at the level of automation. Imagine the forearm strength of the guy whose job it was to install the wheels and tires....all day. My dad started working at the Tarrytown GM plant in 1958...he got several friends and relatives jobs. He was the only one that stayed..it was too much work.

 

Not an ear plug in sight....Huh? What do you say dear?

 

Just think, some of you might be working on one of the cars you saw on that production line.

 

Cool movie.music made me sleepy

 

The amount of mechanisms and the sizes of some of the presses is amazing.


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Think I would have been screaming and running for the exit in about 30 minutes before my brain exploded.

 

Thanks. That was cool

 

Makes me glad I was a plumber, one sparkling thing, oops number 3 rivet missing