I’m delighted you showed this to the TMC members. You are off by a decade - it is 1937/8, not ‘27/8 - although that matters little.
93 years ago this video is a match for your description, except for the contributions of capital to make it happen.
Of particular interest is the multipart cores at 5 minutes. Super complicated hollow cast structures. Hollow shapes have structural benefits.
Somehow trying to put this in a Gigapress Seems like the cycle time hit would be too much.
Might be able to make the motor housing part of the casting for the Model 2?
At the 11:00 +/- mark, harken to something you’ve heard before: “making the machines that make the machines.” That was my favorite part of the film. Gus was, naturally enough, in awe of the rivers of molten metal.
Narrator Lowell Thomas: I knew his son L.T. Jr - Alaska’s first Lt Governor; and went to school with two of his kids, Annie & Dave - we were all on the ski team together.