Cool video of the Ford Model T assembly line [Archive]

Chad-1stGen

12-08-2009, 01:18 PM

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killer69

12-08-2009, 02:14 PM

look at all the PEOPLE WORKING!!!!

what a concept

E.rodz

12-08-2009, 02:36 PM

thats awsome it's all done with americans earning a living for there family intresting concept.just think how many that were working on the assembly line bought these cars.maybe gm and others could learn somthing from this!giving people a decent wage and people will buy there cars.:enguard:

trapin

12-09-2009, 05:13 AM

thats awsome it's all done with americans earning a living for there family intresting concept.just think how many that were working on the assembly line bought these cars.maybe gm and others could learn somthing from this!giving people a decent wage and people will buy there cars.:enguard:
HUH??!! Maybe we could learn from this?

WE'RE THE ONES THAT STARTED IT!!!

What the hell are you talking about??!!!

E.rodz

12-09-2009, 10:29 AM

HUH??!! Maybe we could learn from this?

WE'RE THE ONES THAT STARTED IT!!!

What the hell are you talking about??!!!

what I am talking about is that all the car mfgs.are shipping everything out of our country to be sub. assembled and the people that were once employed by companies like the big auto makers don't have jobs and the cash to buy there own products.the part about all the people is definitly somthing the next generation needs to learn about.

monza

12-09-2009, 10:41 AM

just think how many that were working on the assembly line bought these cars.

I maybe totally wrong but my guess is that it was still a luxury item or a work vehicle. I doubt if hardly anyone on the assembly line could have afforded one?

cheapta

12-09-2009, 05:27 PM

Holy Crap!! Talk about your repetitive-motion injuries! Those guys putting the spokes in the wheels and the guys filing the spokes on the completed wheels must have been junk after a few years of doing that!

Kenova

12-09-2009, 06:21 PM

Holy Crap!! Talk about your repetitive-motion injuries! Those guys putting the spokes in the wheels and the guys filing the spokes on the completed wheels must have been junk after a few years of doing that!
Hence the demand for the high wages. Even today a person is extremely lucky if they can spend thirty years on an assembly line without coming away with a permanent injury or disability.
It would be interesting to to see how $5.00 a day compares to today's dollar (considering the effects of inflation).

Ken

Derek69SS

12-15-2009, 05:22 PM

Tons of inaccuracies in that video... :hammer:

The $5/day work-day was huge for the time... competitors laughed at Henry and said he'd go bankrupt paying his workers that much. What happened was that people came from all over the U.S. to work there, and worked there long enough to buy a Model T. Ford got his money back anyway, and they stayed there longer than the typical assembly-line worker would have, so they became more proficient and worked faster with less time spent training. It was ALL about being efficient...

To get the $5/day you had to be a non-jewish white male. I think there was an age bracket too... Good luck trying that today. :hand:

Chad-1stGen

12-15-2009, 06:47 PM

Not sure how that is inaccurate in what the video said??

Though to be fair the $5 a day was nearer to the end of the Model T production and was because turnover was really high so Ford wasn't offering $5 a day out a desire to create a stronger middle class lol. The did it out of a need to attract workers and keep them. And it worked. Once they offered such a high wage like that they did attract workers from all over and retention went up.

Derek69SS

12-16-2009, 11:25 AM

Not sure how that is inaccurate in what the video said??

Though to be fair the $5 a day was nearer to the end of the Model T production and was because turnover was really high so Ford wasn't offering $5 a day out a desire to create a stronger middle class lol. The did it out of a need to attract workers and keep them. And it worked. Once they offered such a high wage like that they did attract workers from all over and retention went up.

The innacurracies were in far more than just that part. ;) Many of the "facts" about the cars themselves were pretty far off.

The $5/day started in 1914 IIRC, only a year after the introduction of the moving assembly-line.

twosaturns

12-17-2009, 07:59 AM

Jay Leno said once 'it used to be labor was cheap and technology was expensive, now tech is cheap and labor is expensive' (or something like that).
there is NO WAY you could sell a product today affordably and at a profit while at the same time employing all those workers.