End Of An Era.

Click on link above (End Of An Era) for video.  The main title of this post.

Lee Furse

Link: Click on Lee Furse title (above this photo) for the story from Sarah Schuch | The Flint Journal

Lee Furse Tribute

Buick City Lee Furse 1985

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.

 Links

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.

 Link for war production:

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