Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Morgan Three Wheeler & Super 3 1936 US Auto Assembly Line, Shocking!!!

Here is a link that I found years ago and just re-found it. Since most of you guys have Morgans and that they are all hand built piece by piece, this will be quite a shock to you.

http://www.dump.com/2011/07/15/fascinating-1936-footage-of-car-assembly-line-video/

I suspect that this was VERY high tech in 1936...

Think what the safety guys would do with the workers today if they walked inside operating equipment.

Enjoy.

Jeez, most of the jobs those guys are doing are mind-numbing, can't imagine doing that for 8hrs a day, week after week. Gerry.

yea, after watching this, I have nothing but respect for those who did this their entire life to put a roof over their families head and food in their bellies. The days I start griping about my job, I need to play this again.

I work for an OEM of plastic production equipment for the blow molding industry. Our machines are used to finish trim a blow molded container. Here in the states we have Tide detergent and our equipment is the only brand of equipment that's used by the vendor supplying to P&G to trim and finiah all their plastic bottles.

Sometimes on the blow molder the bottles come out backwards so they have a person standing on the side of the conveyor watching for backwards bottles. Maybe 1 in 30 might be backwards so that's about 2 bottles a minute the person would flip. Talk about boring... But they do rotate people out every 2 hours.

Talk about boring!!!

Most of that equipment would be banned on OH&S grouns these days. Presses without guards, heavy machinery wizzing backwards and forwards while a worker in the middle of it all drops parts into place or hits something into place with a hammer, and most of them working without gloves. Lets not even mention safety boots and hard hats.

What we are seeing is man as part of the machine.

Shame we didn't get the noise as well, I expect it would have been deafening.

Brilliant!
Would be interesting to film the Morgan Factory in black and white and then get people to guess what year it was filmed!

A few years ago I visited a factory where they cast alloy wheels. That factory was noisy, hot and full of smoke coming from the liquid they spray into the moulds the ensure separating the workpiece from the mould after solidification. The temperature in the hall next to the casting machines was around 45° C (it was summer). The workers received one crate of mineral water each shift. And that was in western Europe.

There's always the option of leaving something loose for novelty ...

Then there's the Ford River Rouge Complex ... train car loads of iron ore in, train car loads of cars out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_River_Rouge_Complex

What fascinates me are the size of the machines that build the machines ... 'Metroplois', indeed ...