Re: One Story Assembly Plant What If?

Posted by Steve203 On 2014/6/24 0:24:26

but Rita landed her first and only job at what she still called "the Packards."

That's something I have noticed about some old autoworkers.

In a documentary about Studebaker done by the South Bend PBS station in 83, in observance of the 20th anniversary of Studie's shut down in South Bend, former employees talked about working at "Studebaker's".

When my parents first moved to Dearborn in 48, mom worked at the Rouge, and referred to it as "Ford's"

Although Ford Motor was the only one of the three that was privately owned, by members of the Ford family, (Ford went public on Jan 17 of 56) it's interesting that employees of all three thought of the company as if it was owned by the person whose name was on the building.