1970cs

The History channel has a show called lost history. Had some sort of automotive related genre and would you believe it... "Oldsmobile had the first mass produced vehicle on a moving assembly line"

Pat

anthonyP

From what I recall from history class, Oldsmobile had the first moving assembly line, but not mass production. Ford just expanded on Olds' idea.

Human

Exactly. Olds' system, used to build the curved dash models, had the cars on rolling platforms that were moved from one assembly station to the next. Inspired by Olds' operation, Ford took things to the next level with the Model T, incorporating ideas he observed in a Kansas City meat packing plant.

rustyroger

I think the first modern example of mass production as the assembly of interchangeable parts manufactured separately goes to the factory making Springfield rifles around the time of the Civil War?.

Roger.