Re: 20's to 50's Factories

Posted by Guy Fay on September 21, 2000 at 16:31:08 from (169.207.193.42):

In Reply to: 20's to 50's Factories posted by Chris Auer on September 21, 2000 at 10:00:55:

There's no doubt that hand skills have declined, but then how many of yesterday's workers had to deal with computers? You still get craftsmen and women today, with just as much determination and abilities as yesterday. And there are just as any layabouts and waste's of oxygen today as yesterday. However, it takes a lot more to build todays tractors- hydraulics done in clean rooms, computers done in clean rooms, not to mention tighter tolerences in engineering all over.

I remember reading some tractor quality reports that the Fergusen Company had put together about the 2Ns they were buying from Ford Motor COmpany about 1945-46. They had found some press fits that were of by 1/16 of an inch! A large number of other problems were also noted.

I haven't seen similar IH stuff, but I have read reports of worker behavior in Farmall Works from the 1940s and 1950s that were little different from the stories my sister told in the 1990s. One time, they shut down the entire engine assembly line because of a fight between two workers because one wanted a window open, while the other guy wanted it closed. Started a riot.

Again, this is stuff I have read in the original documentation. No, I wasn't there. Yes, I'm prejudiced because I'm a member of the younger generation. But remember, the older generation has been calling the younger generation a bunch of bums for about 8,000 years now. It is the job of historians to expose these little repititions of history in the hopes that people can figure it out.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: 20's to 50's Factories Bill {Antique Acres} 20:37:03 09/21/00 (2)
  • Re: Re: Re: 20's to 50's Factories Guy Fay 07:19:24 09/22/00 (1)
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: 20's to 50's Factories Andy Martin 17:37:50 09/23/00 (0)

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