✏️Every new car starts as a drawing.

Karl Benz made one of the very first cars.

It went about ten miles an hour at best.

🚗Cars are made in a big shop. Workers and machines work there.

A big press squeezes metal into a door.

🎨Paint goes on in layers. One layer gives the car its color.

A clear layer on top keeps the color safe.

Henry Ford wanted cars that families could buy.

Ford's workers built cars on a line.

Cars move down a line. Workers add parts at each stop.

Words to know

• press: metal squeezer
• layer: a coat
• stop: a place