Days gone by - Chevrolet, 1936

[NutmegCT]

A look at the "early" years of auto production in the USA.

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I actually hadn't realized the lines were so automated even back then.

Interesting classical music soundtrack.

Tom

 

[elrey]

Thank you Mr Nutmeg. Here's hoping the best for you, I am off to the factory.

 

[PAUL161]

Very interesting Tom. I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting. PJ

 

[TR6BILL]

Geez, I just had to replace the rear quarter panel on my newish Toyota Tacoma (plus the bumper and rear tail light assembly...some idiot hit and ran in a parking lot). You could lift the new (Toyota part) quarter panel with your pinkie finger. They don't make em like the used to. America's heyday.
Made me kinda sad to watch this, in a weird sort of way.

 

[JPSmit]

You could lift the new (Toyota part) quarter panel with your pinkie finger. They don't make em like the used to. America's heyday.
Made me kinda sad to watch this, in a weird sort of way.

And thank goodness they don't. I remember asking my son's godfather (who owned a body shop) whether they really didn't make 'em like that any more." His answer was that when he started, one of the tasks of rebuilding cars was cleaning the blood off the seats. He couldn't remember the last time he had done that. Thinner in this case means the car is absorbing the shock, not the driver.

Not withstanding that, cool video.

 

[Banjo]

Working in a shop where we fabricate automation equipment, that was a really neat video to see. All those giant presses and measurement equipment. Now replace 19 out of every 20 guys in that video with robots and conveyors and you have today's plants.
But I could almost feel the carpel-tunnel syndrome watching the repetitious tasks of some of those workers.
What you saw there was just the start of automation. Integrated automation is when all those presses, grinders, and lathes get loaded and unloaded by robots with conveyors linking them all together.Then the parts all get measured and inspected by automatic gauges and cameras. The parts never get touched by human hands till they're done.
Very neat to see. I especially liked the forging press for the crankshafts, and the giant presses for the body panels.

 

[70herald]

You could lift the new (Toyota part) quarter panel with your pinkie finger. They don't make em like the used to. America's heyday.
Made me kinda sad to watch this, in a weird sort of way.

And thank goodness they don't. I remember asking my son's godfather (who owned a body shop) whether they really didn't make 'em like that any more." His answer was that when he started, one of the tasks of rebuilding cars was cleaning the blood off the seats. He couldn't remember the last time he had done that. Thinner in this case means the car is absorbing the shock, not the driver.

Not withstanding that, cool video.

A few years ago, the Ohio State Police tried to redo the film "Mechanized Death" they found that there wasn't enough "gore" to make the movie.

 

[JPSmit]

You could lift the new (Toyota part) quarter panel with your pinkie finger. They don't make em like the used to. America's heyday.
Made me kinda sad to watch this, in a weird sort of way.

And thank goodness they don't. I remember asking my son's godfather (who owned a body shop) whether they really didn't make 'em like that any more." His answer was that when he started, one of the tasks of rebuilding cars was cleaning the blood off the seats. He couldn't remember the last time he had done that. Thinner in this case means the car is absorbing the shock, not the driver.

Not withstanding that, cool video.

A few years ago, the Ohio State Police tried to redo the film "Mechanized Death" they found that there wasn't enough "gore" to make the movie.

nice problem to have

 

[DrEntropy]

Overhead cranes, foundry, forging, lathes, presses... can't imagine how the latest generation of iPad carrying Americans would interpret that.

Words like: "work", "job", "production" have certainly lost much of their meaning IMO... "Why is that guy puttin' a pocket watch on a stick down in that thing with all th' holes in it?"



Having been a third generation mill-rat (N.D.T. in a now-defunct steel tubing company) for a short time I could smell, feel, hear all that cacophony, heat and controlled chaos.

I'm with Bill here. Saddened by viewing it.

 

[NutmegCT]

Just to make Doc and Bill feel better ...

I work as a farmer at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.

www.osv.org

We show visitors what rural life was like in New England 200 years ago. We actually plow with oxen, mow with scythes, reap with grain hooks, and plant fields and gardens by hand.

One day last summer I was broadcasting rye seed in a newly-plowed field. Walking slowly, take a handful of seed, cast it in front of you and move on.

A family was watching me over the fence. Father said to his teen-age daughter, who was staring at some kind of tiny device in her hands:

"See what that old man is doing over there? That's called "work".

oy.

T.

 

[DrEntropy]

A family was watching me over the fence. Father said to his teen-age daughter, who was staring at some kind of tiny device in her hands:

"See what that old man is doing over there? That's called "work". oy

Did th' li'l <span style="font-style: italic">enfant terrible</span> even glance up?

Likely thought: "feeding th' birds. so?" :smirk:

 

[NutmegCT]

You'll appreciate this. A couple years ago at Sturbridge, a visiting family with a child about 10 years old asked me why I work so hard in the hot sun.

I said "It keeps me young and handsome!"

Child said "It's not working".

oh well ...

T.