now on all the highways of the world the story begins here in nineteen forty so it was more the beginning of another day automobile for the will be taken by them through the last stages to completion this ideal was a revolutionary event but you would hardly have known it on that morning in one nine hundred forty six your small the car is designed from the inside out the idea is to move everything for passengers in the back seat arriving ahead of the rear wheel and we can bring the overall height down and have even more room it's really more than a new automobile design it's new horizons it's freedom of movement for the people who will one day drive at the right will value it as a possession second only to the homes in which they live but that day is two years away while we've been looking on already months of slip on not long ago a few men have the idea to themselves now dozens of people on teaming up to develop yet no one knows what the car design of the inside out is going to look like but they're dreaming practical dreams on the subject dreams that are kept under lock and ke designers are getting these dreams down on paper drawing outlines around filling them in with color in this the car is this what it will look like well perhaps the sweep of offend finally they arrive at something that may be a composite of the visions in half a hundred fertile minds they see as worth developing this may be the body outline that has to be familiar on every it's a long time since the idea first went down on paper the idea takes form and dimension and water scales it's time to shape it up full something else has happened to the original dream they've broken it down to the fine point and other people are having ideas  taking color from studies of what people life studies in fine variations of shade final the idea is approaching full form and they spray color on the cla trim to get them ready for the hour of decision in less than a year the idea has come a long way we have developed to full size play versions of it and the men will guide the production of the car the men will advertise it in some of the final say at this point they have to study the idea and think how will it look in the show how will it look on the highway going shopping down elm street driving to the picnic on sunday afternoon how will it look parked in the driveway how much cost they make the final decision man the idea is on its way to becoming an automobile but it's an automobile still a long way from production from clay mockups they go to handmade test cars hammered to shape on wooden forms not as perfect as production ties but something that can be driven and tried i guess a long way from the final product but transition from the old to the new has the great moment arrives the shape of the new comes out into the light of day and now a dream that was born in silence feels power in its veins and comes to life they give it a number a clean page on which to write the story of this life and they started out on to the test tr there will be more test cars dozens more they will go on on hour after hour day after day week after week over good roads for speed and bad roads to break them down over a row that goes it was relatively easy to sketch the original idea on paper but now that it's a motor car going into production now that its plans and specifications must play through hundreds of mines in hand it's being translated into precise mechanical lines one thousand sheets of paper these men with their keen pencil will have to prescribe how to line up and fabricated steel parts to be welded they will have to diagram where to drill nine hundred other profile a lot of odd shapes and it happens that you need more than hammers screwdrivers and socket wrench is to build a  scores of hands and brains work designing special tools the kind of tool that may weigh up to seventy times this is one of them it is designed to press the shape of an automobile top from a tough steel sheet from paper plans they mark up the dye and plaster then the tool and die man to hang it up and use it for a fact while their machine traces over the digs its counterpart out of a block of come within a fraction of an inch of touching in the press what they have produced is something that will take steel strip in its jaws and shape a section of a car body they develop guys for range automobiles that will be familiar on roads all over the nation limestone coal a lot of earth substances have been dug up and transported to make a dream come true