All Things Buick

This is the second floor of factory #04. This is probably near the center of the factory judging by the bins holding tires. The cars in th...

  This story on the new Buick foundry #20 is from the trade journal "The Foundry" June 1917.   August 1917 story . This po...

This view facing north on the second floor slat line about 100 feet south of the body drop shows the same job I did in 1976 in factory #04...

The  factory #03 Drop Forge  is in the background. You can see the  rail loading dock  that Buick used in 1916 in the right backgroun...

This photo taken before the creation of Buick City shows a workers companion "The Boom Box". I still have my machine and my spec...

This process of removing and re-installing the doors only lasted through the first year of production at the new Buick City assembly plant...

In this view of the Buick complex the artist has made Industrial Avenue three times as wide as it actually was.

We had two of these large gas powered fork lifts for unloading the flat-bed rail cars. This was quite a balancing act that sometimes led t...

In this 1915 view of the Weston-Mott factory it shows a lot of activity. The  Industrial bank has been in place since 1909 and the road su...