https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/4406ae04-912d-4f59-b899-e1f578c59b08 Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Website: www.PeriscopeFilm.com The "Wide Wide World of White Motor Corp." dates to 1968. This film details the White Motor Corporation's strategy for addressing the world's fundamental needs, what it calls "Inner Space." The company focuses on three core areas: transportation, agriculture, and power. 0:00 The film introduces the White Motor Corporation's mission to conquer "Inner Space," focusing on Earth's fundamental problems like growing food, building infrastructure, hauling materials, and finding energy.1:04 White Motor Corporation assembled a group of companies to pool research, development, and production, applying "Space Age Technology" to these "down-to-Earth problems."1:33 The film highlights White trucks, a long-standing name in the industry, often sold in large fleets.1:48 It then introduces other truck brands acquired by White: Autocar (heavy-duty trucks, expanding into construction), Diamond Reo (specializing in custom-made trucks for owner-operators), and Euclid/Euclid (Yukes) (heavy rear and bottom dumps, giving White a dominant position in mining, quarrying, road, and dam building).3:47 The film asserts that White Motor Corporation is equipped to haul almost anything, anywhere in the world.4:01 For farm machinery, the film presents Oliver (full-line manufacturer with a global reputation for efficiency) and Minneapolis-Moline (tractors and implements for America's Heartland, also growing in Canada, known for Wheatland combines).4:43 It also mentions Arbos, their Italian farm machinery company, which harvests various crops in Europe, Africa, and South America.5:27 The film emphasizes the world's need for better ways to grow more food.5:38 White Motor Corporation's involvement in power is introduced: Hercules (supplying tens of thousands of engines for electricity and pumping water/natural gas), and White Superior (providing large-scale power plants up to 2,000 horsepower, designed for automatic, long-term operation).6:26 The film highlights Hadis Engineering's total energy systems, capable of supplying all energy needs (lighting, heating, cooling, water, waste disposal) for large installations like the Pentagon, showcasing "Space Age Technology" for Earth-bound problems.6:49 The film summarizes White Motor's "Inner Space Team" focusing on trucks for construction/transportation, farm machinery, and power.7:00 It reports that White Motor's sales have more than tripled in the last decade, leading the nation and the world in heavy-duty diesel trucks and highway tandems.7:19 The Advanced Products Division's Laboratories in Los Angeles are developing advanced engines and hydraulic systems that could "obsolete every truck and tractor in the world." 8:15 The film concludes by acknowledging the growing challenge of "Inner Space" due to increasing global population and the ongoing need for food, transportation, and power, stating that White Motor Corporation aims to be ready for the future. White Motor Company (later renamed White Motor Corporation and commonly known as White) was an American car, truck, bus and agricultural tractor manufacturer from 1900 until 1980. The company also produced bicycles, roller skates, automatic lathes, and sewing machines. Before World War II, the company was based in Cleveland, Ohio. White Diesel Engine Division in Springfield, Ohio, manufactured diesel engine generators, which powered U.S. military equipment and infrastructure, namely Army Nike and Air Force Bomarc launch complexes, and other guided missile installations and proving grounds, sections of SAGE and DEW Line stations, radars, Combat Direction Centers and other ground facilities of the U.S. aerospace defense ring, such as the Texas Towers. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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