Chicago Assembly
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Chicago Assembly is Ford Motor Company's oldest continually-operated automobile manufacturing plant. It is located in Chicago, Illinois. Production started on March 3, 1924 as an alternative production site for the Model T to the famous River Rouge Plant. It switched to Model A production in 1928, and built M8 Greyhound and M20 Armored Utility Car armored cars during World War II. It was the site of pickup truck production for 40 years before that operation stopped in 1964. In 1985, it was selected as the site of production for the company's popular Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable midsize sedans.
Ford spent $400,000,000 in 2004 to modernize the plant. It switched to production of the D3 platform vehicles for 2005 as nine automotive suppliers have built factories nearby. Ford's Chicago plant is a center for flexible just-in-time production and has repeatedly been cited as the most efficient automobile factory in North America.
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[edit] Products
- 1924–1928 Ford Model T
- 1928–1931 Ford Model A
- 1945– Mercury 2-door sedan
- 1949– Ford
- 1953–1964 Ford F-100
- 1976 Ford Torino
- 1981–1982 Ford Granada
- 1981–1982 Mercury Cougar
- 1983–1984 Ford LTD
- 1983–1984 Mercury Grand Marquis
- 1986–2004 Ford Taurus
- 1986–2004 Mercury Sable
- 2005– Ford Five Hundred
- 2005– Ford Freestyle
- 2005– Mercury Montego
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[edit] References
- Betting on Ford. Ward's AutoWorld. Retrieved on June 15, 2005.
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