Buick Free Spirit.

We had a few of these and I unloaded and  back-loaded this same one many times. The pattern & die shop #15 is blocked by the trailer. Part of Personnel #85 is visible over the cab. This is setting in the exact spot shown in the previous post (coal pile) at the Buick powerhouse link.

Buick Powerhouse.

Links: Found on Gordon Young's site.  

Factory #15 1997 

Buick Powerhouse.

This north-west view from the old St John's neighborhood shows, left to right, the powerhouse #14, #85 Personnel and #15 die and pattern shop across Leith Street. The Buick Special and Chevrolet Corvair are on old Michigan Avenue. Notice the cooling vents on the rear air cooled Corvair are covered to keep the snow out.

Link for original here.

More Aerial Buick. Leith Street Then And Now.  Factory #15 Die And Pattern Shop  

The red arrow shows location & direction. The foundry #20 is where the future #85 will be built.

Buick Laboratories 1922.

August 1922.  Buick spark tester link: Popular Science 1941.

General Electric 1918.

Link: 

General Electric Wires Buick In 1911.

City Of Applied "Humanics" January 1920.

LINK: Buick Personnel

Flint------Second City of Industry April 1915.

Page 1

Link: Oak Park Industries

page 2 

Links: Buick site 1912. The 1904 Model B & Flint Wagon Works.

page 3

Link: Armstrong Spring Company & Marvel Carburetor Co..  

page 4

Link: The Weston-Mott Factories At Buick

page 5 

page 6

Links: A.C. On Industrial Avenue and the Buick Bug. Imperial Wheel Company Had Many Faces Durant-Dort Factories East of Saginaw Street.

page 7

Links: Michigan Motor Castings Company 

One Millionth Buick

Left to right is motor plant manager William Beacraft-research engineer Eugene C. Richard-superintendent Colman J. Ross-assistant chief engineer Ferdinand A. (Dutch) Bower and chief engineer Enos DeWaters.

March 21,1923 on Hamilton Avenue in Flint. 

Sales manager Ed Strong.

Link:  News Story.

October 25 1969.  

With the Old General Motors headquarters in Detroit as a backdrop we have a 1908 model 5 Buick and the one millionth model 23-25 Sport Touring Buick.  One millionth Buick on loan.  Two millionth Buick story.

Buick War Footing.

October 1941.

Links: 

Factory #62 Getting Ready For War  Factory #12 War Work.  The Last Flint Built Buick During World War II  Melrose Park Illinois Buick Factory.  R-1830 "Twin Wasp" Radial Engine prop-shafts Journey Through Buick. Liberator Engine work at Buick. 

1906 Buick.

This north-east view  from 1906 shows all the same structures shown below. This photo was taken from the roof of the Stewart #4 body assembly factory. Hamilton Avenue is in the foreground.  Links: 

Factory #04 Collage  Oak Park Power Company  The W.F. Stewart Factories In Flint.  Buick Factory #01.  Factory #06 Assembly  The Weston-Mott Factories At Buick  Industrial & Hamilton Avenues  Oak Park Entrance 1934 - 2001.

Buick during 1906 shows a  field of stumps yet to be removed. The photographer would have been standing where the future Oak Park entrance to Buick City would be located. This south-east view shows from left to right: factories #06 assembly, #01 paint and transmission, Oak Park Power Company, Weston-Mott axle assembly partially blocking the Stewart #4 body assembly. 

This north view may have been taken the same day as the view above. From left to right is the Oak Park subdivision along Industrial Avenue, Weston-Mott axle assembly, Oak Park Power Company and #01 paint and transmission. Notice that this postcard and the one above are from the same company using the same font.                                                                                      

This was how many workers lived at that time.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Click on page below for story and photos of early Flint.