Print, Photographic

Black and white photo of Carole MacMillan, a Ford Saline Plastics Plant employee, demonstrating the addition of metric units to the company's speedometers for the 1979 model year. She holds an speedometer taken from a bin of speedometers below, and sets its needle to 55 miles or 88 kilometers per hour. A caption typewritten on Ford Diversified Products Operation letterhead, taped to the verso, reads:

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WHEN 88 EQUALS 55 -- With the introduction of 1979 models, the speedometers on most U.S. Ford Motor Company cars and trucks will show a maximum reading of 85 miles per hour (mph), with a scale to show kilometers per house (kph) as well. While awaiting instrument panel assembly, these completed speedometers for new Ford vehicles are stores in baskets at the company's Saline (Mich.) Plastics Plant. On the road, they'll remind the law-abiding motorist that 88 kph is about the same as 55 mph, as demonstrated here by employee Carole MacMillan.

8/14/78