SIA Flashback – Japan’s Toyota with Stovebolts and Battle of the Overpass
Even before I first picked up a copy of SIA, I’d heard or read these stories elsewhere, and now after reviewing SIA #39, March-April 1977, I see that they both originated in that same issue. The...
View ArticleEliot Ness and the 1939 Fisher Body plant riot in Cleveland
After three weeks, tensions started to run high in Cleveland. The city’s largest automotive factory, the Albert Kahn-designed seven-story Fisher Body plant on the corner of Coit Road and East 140th...
View ArticleThis Day in History: GM recognizes the UAW
On February 11, 1937, General Motors officially recognized the United Automobile Workers union, ending the Flint Sit-Down Strike that had shuttered its Flint, Michigan, operations since December 1936....
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