Buick Paint 1920.

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Links: Buick Factory #01. Factory #07 Seat Stuffing Assembly factory #06 W.F. Stewart Inside + Postcard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Applying the varnish on a model T using the flow method.  Original link for this photo.

Buick Security.

 These Buick officers were always the good guys. I dealt with them on a daily basis when I was a clerk for shipping and receiving. When Buick outsourced their duties to the Pinkerton Agency, after the creation of Buick City, "The good old days at the Buick" were truly gone forever.

 That is factory #31 axle plant in the background which was originally the old engine plant #11 until 1953 & 1954 when the new engine plant #36 was opened for business. This is facing directly north on Division Street just north of Leith Street. This was found on my friend Gordon Young's site at the following link: 

Flint Photos: Buick Plant Security in the Fifties

 This building housed Main medical, Works engineering, Master mechanic, Security, Metallurgy, Factory Safety store and Personnel and employment.

This is building #85 where I hired in on October 9, 1972.   During World War II.  Other Links: 

Buick Personnel Factory #11 Demolished. Leith Street Revisited.

Building Data 1947.

Courtesy of Leroy Cole and Kevin Kirbitz.

Notice that the Grand Blanc plant is mis-spelled Grand Bland.

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.

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Link: Oak Park Industries

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

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Link: Armstrong Spring Company & Marvel Carburetor Co..  

page 4

Link: The Weston-Mott Factories At Buick

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

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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.