Re: Hemmings Motor News June issue reprint of Romney interview...

Posted by Ross On 2013/5/13 20:44:18

"Finish" an industry trade magazine ran a huge spread on the new Connor plant in their Feb 55 issue. The mention of Jarecki is from a congratulatory US Steel ad with pictures of 55 fenders and doors being stamped.

The centerfold was a double page copy of the Connor floorplan with all the different areas pointed out to show the flow. The scale is necessarily tiny and I don't have a way to reproduce it that would be likely legible. I do think it has been reprinted in one of PAC's mags.

Everything I can identify on it was either a receiving, subassembly, finishing or assembly area. That actually stands to reason as the nature of a plant that does stampings, especially large ones, is going to be different because of height and foundation requirements than an assembly plant.


There was another magazine, "Mill and Factory" that also did a big spread on Connor but I have never been able to obtain a copy of that. IIRC, "Automotive Industries" also did an article on the painting procedures used.