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1940 Ford Brochure
Ford Exposition 1940 Brochure


The Transportation Zone (Zone 6)
1939 New York World's Fair

Ford Motor Company


Architects: Albert Klein Inc.
Designers: Walter Darwin Teague, C.C. Colby and R.R. Kilburn


The Entrance Hall was the first car built by Henry Ford and current models of the Lincoln-Zephyr, Mercury and Ford V-8. The "Road of Tomorrow" was a ride which took the visitor through the other areas while viewing the exhibits and murals depicting the construction of the highways of tomorrow.

Ford's display was divided into four main sections – the Entrance Hall, the Industrial Hall, the Garden Court and the "Road of Tomorrow."

The stainless steel Sculpture of Mercury by Robert Foster floated over the main entrance to the "Ford Exposition". Foster designed the U.S. Petroleum Industry stamp (Scott 1134) of 1959.

 


Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company Entrance From the
Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)


Ford Pavilion
Ford - Courtesy World's Fair Historical Society - wf-014r

Ford Motor Company Photo by Underwood & Underwood
Ford Motor Company
Photo by Underwood & Underwood

Ford Pavilion in the Transportation Zone
Photo by William Keys Smith
from the Susan S. Waite collection


Ford Booklet
The Ford Exposition

Click on the image to view the entire booklet from the Ford Motor Company

Ford at night
Photo RM08 - captured with permission from Robert Martens from a film taken by his grandfather, Gustave Martens.

Ford's Stainless Steel Statue of Mercury
Photo DS-5 by Harold Green from the collection of Dr. William R. Hanson

Ford Pavilion
Ford Pavilion - Courtesy World's Fair Historical Society - wf-015r

Ford Motor Company - photo 081
Ford Motor Company - photo 081

Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company - photo 82