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I didn,t work on the assy lines ,but went straight into a GM plant here as a toolmaking apprentice at 16yrs,my mate stayed at school for another three years,then uni,then other so called learning places,years later I was walking past the fridge assy line to fix some jigs and there he was screwing handles on,I could stop to talk,but he had to keep screwing the handles on,me with three years high school and him with plenty.
Mind you he got a better job later,he was Bernie Eccleston,s private pilot. Lawrie |
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08-05-2016, 04:31 PM | #23 |
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I work at the Lorain Assembly plant. I was a paint repairman in the final garage. We work 10 to 12 hours mostly 7 days a week. I only stayed 12 years then went in business for my self. I did miss it and the friends. Still keep in touch with some of them. Ford was very good to me. Gave me a good start in life for my family. I will will be always thankful because I had nothing when I went there.
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08-05-2016, 06:01 PM | #24 |
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I'd love to hear from someone who assembled the front ends on 48 - 52 F-series on the lines. There are at least a bejillion bolts and nuts, all in tight quarters. I'd bet the work turned them all to drink...
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Tonawanda was the sole supplier for the mighty Z-11, all aluminum 427. The alum heads and high rise intakes were purchased items from Winters foundary. Tonawanda fully machined the alum block on a huge Sundstrand Omnimil, the precourser of today's machining center. The bare block after machining was 98 pounds. Each Z-11 was run in on our dynos. The dynos ran 24 hours 6 days a week. If a Z-11 didn't make 450 hp (I think) it did not get shipped. Some Z-11's were extremely blueprinted. After full assembly the piston to deck height was determined and the blocks were brought into the tool room, where I worked at the time, and we ground the decks plus or minus .001. After reassembly and using cc'd cylinder heads and degreed cams and cranks these babies blew right thru 450. Seems like yesterday. I will close with an observation.......during my apprenticeship I learned under MEN who fought the Japs and Germans in WWII, till this day I revere them all ! Charlie ny |
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08-06-2016, 11:28 AM | #27 |
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Charlie......Do you have a ROUGH IDEA just how many Z-11s were actually produced? From what you explain above, it seems as though there must have been quite a few. DD
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08-06-2016, 01:20 PM | #28 |
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I don't think future generations will ever know, nor will our (revisionist) history books ever report the total contribution of "The Greatest Generation" you worked with. America is still today an exceptional country. Thanks for upholding your end of the bargain to this day. |
08-06-2016, 03:49 PM | #29 |
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Another treasure from working on the line. These were all over the assembly area.
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08-06-2016, 06:44 PM | #30 |
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Since you mentioned : Eddie Sadja...........New Guinea......Luzon......Corrigidor......Phillipines Bruce Mauer......Enlisted thru the Nat'l Guard at 17.......Burma..India Roy Bull......The Ruhr and on into Berchtesgaden, stopped short of Berlin Hank Suski......Ardennes Walter Gurney..........Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima Bill Morrisey........82nd Airborn Steve Kiss........USN machinist mate, ran all shop equipment on base on Saipan...a 45 in his belt and a grease gun on the head stock Bill Arthur......B-17 pilot, made 22 missions Larry Yates........Sole survivor when his B-17 took a fatal shot from a German 88 To name a few Charlie ny |
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Yes indeed. Thanks to each and every one of them.
I wish kids today had the chance to talk to those type men and women. I am worried about our future. |
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I worked on the assembly line in the Lorain Ohio Ford plant from 1962-1966,we made Falcons and Comets,we made 58-62 cars per hour,and I worked on every one, had about a minute to do your job,line never stopped,the mototeny and the speed you had to work was a killer..
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Yep you can't help but worry when you look around . However I keep reminding myself of an ancient Greek document I once read that detailed how the younger generation was hopeless, with no values , no work ethic , no morals and no future and hence we were all doomed . This was written 2000 years ago and we are still here ! -Karl
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The book by 'Rivethead' (the author) tells the same stories that you see here plus more. I dont remember the title
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Rivethead by Ben Hamper.........tales from the assembly line. Interesting story for
sure, the key character worked an off line job that supplied subassemblies to the main assembly line. The gist of the story....by all accounts true......is how he developed methods of beating the 'system' to get himself free time. He made the industrial engineers look like green horns. Thanks bg I'm going to reread this gem ! Charlie ny PS Warner Books copyright 1986 |
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ole39.........Do YOU know anyone that can weld 40 FEET of bead per minute? DD
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i worked at deere harvester also for 38 years. mostly mig for 30. with .045 wire, we were timed by company time study at 440 i.p.m. 0.35 wire was 570 i.p.m. flux core was much slower, but dont remember those wire speeds.
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