We took some pictures of the R.E. Olds Historical Marker as requested by one of the members,but I'm not sure how to post it or if I can being that I'm new to the site. Can anybody help?





Scott Turner

 

Open a www.photobucket.com link. Upload your pics there and copy/paste the link here. I am not sure on how to do pics directly to here.

 

Hit post reply
Hit advanced
Scroll down to manage attachments-click on it
Hit browse
select your pic
hit upload
wait

Voila

 

Jamesbo...youre purdier than I expected younger too

 

Or you can click the icon that looks like mountains with a sun and then insert the url into the box.

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Looks a little faded to me or maybe too much light

 

I like Flickr for pics, really easy. Do you mean this place? I'll have to take the Vista over there sometime for pics or if I need any parts.



Ohio historical marker sign link.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/...b772d16875.jpg

 

Geneva is the first place I'm taking my car this summer, its gonna be done.....I hope......lol

 

Funny, I was always taught Henry Ford was the man behind the assembly line Is that accurate? If so that's kinda cool

 

Ransom was the the guy that started the assembly line and Henry started using the same technique and somehow got recognized instead

 

Actually the true distinction is that Olds was the first to use an assembly line for automobile production. (If you read the sign carefully, it does not say he invented the assembly line)
Ford was the first to use an *automated* assembly line for car production. More specifically a moving assembly line, an evolution of the Olds method.

 

Ford is recognized for adapting a moving assembly line to the auto industry. There were moving assembly lines in other indusrties and also what may be considered organized assembly lines in auto industry. ford combined the 2 methods together to create a consistantly moving auto assembly line thus putting out thousands of model T's which were considered to be the first affordable auto for the general public. there were other affordable autos but the model T was able to be mass produced and therefore meet the growing demand for the automobile. Ford also offered up to double the average salary which caused huge lineups to get a job working the line. It wasn't long before problems arose about doing the same thing day in and day out. When workers tried to organize a union Henry came down with a heavy hand by hiring strong arm thugs that beat and in at least 1 case shot and killed a union organizer. he did offer good wages but always tried to speed up the line to maximize production and had foremen who were questionable about their approach to push the workers since they had a hard time keeping up with demand.Ford eventually built a larger plant around the time the model A was introduced and ended up leasing the old model T plant to Fisher who was making a lot of the bodies for Ford as well as many other auto manufacturing companies. I believe the cost was 200,000 anually which in 1928 was a huge sum.