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Auto Plants in Los Angeles County

Company Location When Closed Jobs Lost

Chrysler

Commerce

July 1971

1,300+

Ford*

Pico Rivera

February 1980

1,670

General Motors**

South Gate

April 1982

2,550+

General Motors

Van Nuys

August 1992

2,600

* Plant produced a total of 1.4 million automobiles
** Plant produced a total of 4.5 million automobiles

 

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)

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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