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The Dodge Factory, or "Dodge Main" as it became known, occupied 67 acres (0.27 km 2) on the edge of the village of Hamtramck, which is surrounded by the city of Detroit. [6] Plant 4, on Conant Avenue, was separated only from the main plant structures by a railroad right-of-way, which was also the boundary line between the two cities.
Dodge D-Series Trucks: Originally a Chalmers plant in 1916, then Maxwell-Chalmers, then Chrysler Canada in 1925. Became Windsor Plant 1. Converted to truck production in 1931 until 1978 and then idled; from 1980 to 1983 serving as the Imperial Quality Assurance Center then closed. Windsor Engine: Windsor, Ontario: 1938: 1980: Inline 6 and V8 ...
Dodge Main Plant. Hamtramck, Michigan with parts overlapping into Detroit, Michigan: Dodge cars 1910 [8] 1980-01-04 [9] First plant organized by the United Automobile Workers Union. Home of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in the 1960s. Demolished 1981.
This photo from Jan., 16, 1937, shows strikers just before they left the Cadillac plant during a strike against General Motors. ... UAW workers parade out of the Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck ...
Dodge Main quickly expanded and became important to Hamtramck. Before the construction of Dodge Main, Hamtramck was a largely rural town. The establishment of the Dodge Main assembly plant led to a large influx of Polish immigrants who pushed out the incumbent German politicians. It was after this that Hamtramck was considered a Polish-American ...
In 1910, Hamtramck was home to 3500 people, and Dodge decided to build a new automotive plant, Dodge Main, at the southeast corner of the village. The plant was completed in 1914 and workers flooded into the area, many of them Polish. [4] By 1920, the population of Hamtramck had boomed to 48,000, an increase of over 13 times in ten years.
During World War II the plant first manufactured tank transmissions and truck parts, but in mid-1943 it was converted to produce uranium enrichment diffusers for K-25 plant. [ 2 ] When Chrysler began having financial problems during the 1970s, the decision was made to close the factory along with the Hamtramck Dodge Factory and production ended ...
In 1990 Chrysler began cleanup and demolition of the old plant and built a new factory on the site ("New Mack"). [2] The factory floor space covers 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m 2). [3] It was the original production site for the Dodge Viper, from 1992 to 1995 when the Viper moved to Conner Avenue Assembly.