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deuce_roadster · 10-20-2022, 08:20 AM

Seattle had 2 assembly plants. The one for model T and A's was built (over by where I-5 is now, Fairview street) on a hillside where the parts came down from above. It still exists as I believe a Shurgard Storage and i always looked for where the FORD sign used to be as you could see the marks where it was hung. I don't live in Seattle anymore but always looked at it. My neighbor when I first moved to Seattle in 1973, as a young man drove brand new Model T's from that plant over to Wilson Ford in Ballard a neighborhood of Seattle.
I am not sure when the second plant was built but it is on Marginal Way and was closed at the end of 1932 production, the smokestack is still standing. It must have been a pretty new facility, but the depression closed it. Currently the building is a Federal Records Center. Lorin Sorenson's wonderful series of books has pictures of new model A's parked in front of the 1st plant. At very near the end of his 1932 video, a new 32 roadster and phaeton come out of a side door next to a pier, and I fantasize that the roadster is the one I now have! The building, pier, windows and big door are still there looking exactly as they were in 1932.
At least these two buildings are still in use. The 32 plant is almost across the street from the best radiator shop in the area, Seattle Radiator.

10-20-2022, 08:20 AM	#2
deuce_roadster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Shelton, WA Posts: 4,043	Re: Ultra "SAD" news here locally Seattle had 2 assembly plants. The one for model T and A's was built (over by where I-5 is now, Fairview street) on a hillside where the parts came down from above. It still exists as I believe a Shurgard Storage and i always looked for where the FORD sign used to be as you could see the marks where it was hung. I don't live in Seattle anymore but always looked at it. My neighbor when I first moved to Seattle in 1973, as a young man drove brand new Model T's from that plant over to Wilson Ford in Ballard a neighborhood of Seattle. I am not sure when the second plant was built but it is on Marginal Way and was closed at the end of 1932 production, the smokestack is still standing. It must have been a pretty new facility, but the depression closed it. Currently the building is a Federal Records Center. Lorin Sorenson's wonderful series of books has pictures of new model A's parked in front of the 1st plant. At very near the end of his 1932 video, a new 32 roadster and phaeton come out of a side door next to a pier, and I fantasize that the roadster is the one I now have! The building, pier, windows and big door are still there looking exactly as they were in 1932. At least these two buildings are still in use. The 32 plant is almost across the street from the best radiator shop in the area, Seattle Radiator.