Local #599 For Sale

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The old 599 local union hall

Buick Factory #62

Here we see the body drop in 1932.

W.F. Stewart Factory #4 1912

This view from 1910 facing south east across the intersection of Industrial and Hamilton Avenue, shows the W.F. Stewart plant #4 where open body's were built before their trip through the tunnel under Hamilton Avenue, making their way to the factory #01 paint facility at the Buick complex.

These are the men who built the early Buick body's. This factory was located at Industrial and Hamilton Avenue on the south-east corner. The Stewart company built body's for many of the early car and carriage company's in Flint, Michigan.

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Inside factory #4

Factory #4 and #3 Body Shop

Buick Assembly 1922

W.F. Stewart Inside + Postcard

Industrial and Hamilton 1913

1934 Buick Demolition

Buick Factories 1910

Hamilton Avenue #4-#08 And Weston-Mott

Hamilton Avenue about 1909

The Last Flint Built Buick During World War II

The last 1942 Buick off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan before conversion for building war material. This would be shortly before the noon hour whistle on February 3, 1942. The (actual) last Buick built was in the Southgate, California factory on February 7, 1942. The Linden, New Jersey factory was the first that built out, on December 23, 1941.

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Buick At It's Battle Stations  Terry Dunham story: page 14, Buick Bugle

Ron Fonger Story On The End Of Buick In Flint

Buick City site may be reborn

Buick City site may be reborn: "Motors Liquidation Co. hopes to redevelop the south end portion of the 452-acre former Buick City property."

Weston-Mott At Industrial & Hamilton

This early postcard showing the Hamilton and Industrial Avenue corner (facing north east) appears to be from 1908. This photo seems to have been hand edited, as most were from that time period. It also seems to show the roads still being graded. More research required.

This photo shows the same view as shown above nearly 100 years later and taken from the same location. 

Weston Mott 1906-1910

October 22, 2010

Buick 1941

Top left is a south-east view with Hamilton and Industrial Avenue crossing at the lower right in the photo. The bottom right photo is facing north-east at the same intersection.

504 Project Car.

Andy Popovich II says: Some more pictures from 1976 May it says on my pictures. These were taken in the Buick main office parking lot on Hamilton west of JP Cole.
We held a gymkana with the Flint Corvette Club in the parking lot. In the pictures you can see the old ad min building and the demo going on at DuPont. This is the second year Explorer Scout Post 504 Project Car. This is where the production Skyhawk with the IMSA style body panels came from. This is the car that had the radical normally aspirated engine designed by Ken Baker who was head of engine engineering for Buick at the time. He was great to have as a part of our sponsor team at Buick. I was involved with motorcycle ( Kawasaki ), snowmobile ( Arctic Cat factory ride 19971-1973 ) and road racing ( Privateer ) before and during this time frame. Ken also enjoyed these areas of passion. This car had Kenny Bell heads and the first block girdle I ever saw. The numbers on the dyno made Chevy V-8 motors of the time look endemic. You can see the front end lift of the chassis under acceleration in the photos. I am driving in most of these photos. They were taken by my late cousin Matt Klee.

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1976 Explorer Skyhawk