Old factory photos.....Non minibike

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If you have any neat factory photos, please post. At one time this country produced and made tons of stuff. Those days are long gone. I'm sure some of your parents and grandparents had some awesome jobs. While I have been going through tons of photos, I have come across some pretty cool ones. Most of them will end up in the trash since no family members are interested. That is why I decided to share. The photos with the old cars are the best:thumbsup: My grandmother use to work for a company called "Heinemann Electric" in Trenton, NJ. I know she was a supervisor and retired from there.
 
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My father was a retired general foreman at 3M (MMM) in Bristol, PA. I'm sure you all own something in your house made by 3M. Where the plant was located use to be called Fleetwings. Fleetwiings welded alumini airplanes at their plant. When they left town, 3M took over the building. Sometimes when my dad had to work a half day, he would take me and my mini bike to work with him and let me ride around the property. There was still a large part of the air strip left from Fleetwings. I remember going to open houses at the 3M plant. It was really cool seeing those jumbo rolls of tape being made. When you was in the plant, your hair would stand straight up from the static:laugh: Needless to say, we always had plenty of tape at home.

Copied this photo from ebay:


These are photos that was given to my father in a frame at his retirement dinner. I think my father started the slitting and packing department at the Bristol plant.
 

125ccCrazy

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The old Willys/Jeep plant... these of course were taken long before I worked there but I seen and walked through some of these same departments.

Check out the cool car hauler..

The pic of the Cherokee in the window was our finish line where they rolled off the end of the line, people driving by could watch through the big windows..








 
#7
Some place in my thousands of photos I have some neat GM plant photos from West Trenton, NJ. My mother worked there for a while. If you had a job with GM, you was set for life. Its a shame what happened to all of those plants all over the United states. Most of those plants was in operation for over 60 years:doah:
 
#8
my Dad worked for Fisher Body 1 in Flint ( Vehicle City ) Michigan , all this huge factories are long gone including Buick City now just a vacant field and a lose of thousands of job, yes we were the industrial giant at on time. now in Georgia the mill factory center at one time the have re-purposed a lot of these factories into apartment and antiques stores, about 10 miles from me is Monroe Georgia and they have two neat mills converted to antique centers and you can feel the history walking though them . i'll try to take some pictures next time i go. posted a picture of Fisher 1 original site of sit down strike back in 36 the plant was gigantic and covered many city blocks - now Flint is a city trying to survive.
 
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This is what Frood looked like in the 1930s when my grandfather worked there..
Not factory and I dont have many pictures I can find on line.
I do have a shoe box someplace with picturs of the open pit my gandfather took at great risk to his job durring the war.
Biggest mining trucks ever mad rumbled up and down the ramp.
They took up both lanes on the main street down town on the VE day parrade ( only the seocnd time they were ever seen in publlic )



Some of the old building still stand.
But not as impressive as the old days.

Here's the queen going underground in 59 ( possibly the second worman to do so after her mother in the 1930s ) does she not look reagal lol.


Here's the early days of the frood pit that suplied the allies most of the nickel used in the war.




Found the Queen mum and King George lol this is 1939 I think


As seen today looking south east from Frood side towards Stobie good shot of the pit today


Some posters from the war.


Vicotry Nickels to save the real metal for war production.


After the wars somethign needed to be done with the metals lol.
So the fellows in Sheridan park invented the kitchen sink ( no joke )


These old girls were made in 1918 and stayed in service untill aroun 2000 as I recall.


Converter Ile.

Add some hoods for fume extractors and its not much different today.

Smleter complex wind blows left to right can you tell.
 
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Drove by the old 3M plant the other day. Some of the building is still there and some other business resides in there. There has been tons of building in that area. I doubt if any of the old air strip is left from Fleetwings.
 
#17
Before Digital photgraghy and celll phone camera we never took many pictures.
I have non of many places I wish I recorded.

2002 was one of the last times I was in the old EB Eddy specilaty paper ( Former KVP, yup same people in the Michigan UP are thinking Kallamzoo Vegitable parchment, now part of Domtar or Dum-arse tar as we know them in Canada ).
This mill was a special place in my youth because my maternal grandfather worked at the mill.
I had seen it inside ( some parts over 100 years old and some quite new )
But in the basement was a secret!

In 2002 while doing some electrical work I saw it for myself.
The area where German POWs were housed durring the war.
Some of those fellow were quite artistic and painted a Mural on the wall.
All by memory they painted this beautiful map of the world.

I think its historicaly significnat.
But I never had a digital camera and after an exhaustive websearch I have concluded no one ever took a picture and posted it to the net.

Its in the brick building basement area very centre of this picture...


Anyhow
 
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The old Willys/Jeep plant... these of course were taken long before I worked there but I seen and walked through some of these same departments.

Check out the cool car hauler..

The pic of the Cherokee in the window was our finish line where they rolled off the end of the line, people driving by could watch through the big windows..








Brought back memories. Grandpa had one of these and that is where I learned how to drive. Top speed about 50 mph.
 
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