The Assembly line 1972..

[70 copo]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

I had to buy my book...




(lol)

This is a special offer since He is in charge of the CRG, -- and since he banned me from that forum several years ago I thought the free book is an appropriate peace offering.

[x33rs]

We had a close friend and car buddy that retired from the Norwood plant in the early 80's. He had connections and was kind enough to give us a private tour of the plant around 86-ish or so. I don't remember the exact year of the tour but I do remember the plant closed down a couple years later.

I thought it was cool to get inside info from a long timer, walk around freely, watch them beat on the 3rd gens that were coming out at the time, it was quite an operation.

My grandfather retired from the Fisher Body plant in Hamilton not far from there, he built doors, or door skins, or something like that. His stories were pretty funny too.

[Kurt S]

Originally Posted by 70 copo

This is a special offer since He is in charge of the CRG, -- and since he banned me from that forum several years ago I thought the free book is an appropriate peace offering.

Yup, and have only banned 2-3 people over the years!

[70 copo]

Yep, and in doing so you banned the Norwood Retirees as well.

Think of everything you and the board could have learned over the years.. sad really.

Want a free book? I will ship it today.

[juliosz]

Wow, it looks way different from the atmosphere in the plant I worked in. I hired into Chevrolet Spring and Bumper in September 78 and there was no fear on the union side. In fact, if management was either slow or disagreeable on settling grievances, our union steward would show up early in our shift and tell us to slow down our pace to send a message. Since our jobs were considered semi-skilled, we weren’t required to work at line speed so we could get away with it. The nice part of working that job was even though I was making great money for a young single guy, the deplorable working conditions inspired me to do better things with my life.
The plant is gone now but it was an amazing place as it was not only the largest plating facility in the world but supposedly had the largest press room as well. We had the capacity to punch-out and plate 25000 bumpers a day.