DeSoto automobiles on assembly line in welding department, DeSoto factory
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Description
View of DeSoto automobiles on assembly line in the welding department of the DeSoto Warren Avenue plant. Label on back: "DeSoto's new body plant. A section of the welding department in the new body-building operation installed in DeSoto's Warren Avenue plant in Dearborn. The DeSoto is an all-steel body, welded together, and the welding department contains 540 separate welding machines and guns. One machine produces 198 welds in 17 seconds at the push of a button. Bodies being welded move along a circular assembly line, known as a 'carrousel.' WS 5389." Handwritten on back: "Warren Avenue plant, Detroit, Michigan. Factories--DeSoto, ca. 1950."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040761
- Subject:
- DeSoto automobile
- Assembly-line methods
- Automobile factories--Michigan--Detroit
- Chrysler Corporation. DeSoto Division
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- c.1950
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- Factories--DeSoto
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.