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Earlier Auto Plants
(& year opened)
Willys-Overland plant in Maywood (1929)
Ford Motor Company plant on Terminal Island (1930)
Studebaker plant
in Vernon (1938)
Nash-Kelvinator plant in El Segundo (1946)
Kaiser Frazer plant in Long Beach (post-WWII)
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In 1914, Ford
Motor Company opened Southern California's earliest auto assembly plant in
Los Angeles to assemble Model T
Fords. In 1930, Ford moved its manufacturing to a plant on Terminal
Island and produced 1.5 million vehicles there before closing the
plant in 1959. Many employees from the closed plant transferred to the
Ford plant in Pico Rivera. |
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