GM Closes 2 Assembly Plants Plant Daimlerchrysler NUMMI 5/16-5/20 5/21 5/9-5/13 5/14 ■ General Motors’ Baltimore Assem- Belvidere, Ill
production Scheduled plant AutoAlliance 5/9-5/13 5/14 overtime Flat Rock, Mich. car x x GM closes 2 assembly plants Plant DaimlerChrysler NUMMI 5/16-5/20 5/21 5/9-5/13 5/14 ■ General Motors’ Baltimore assem- Belvidere, Ill. car x x Fremont, Calif. car, truck - x bly plant closed after building the Sterling Heights, Mich. car x x Saltillo, Mexico truck x - last Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari St. Louis (North) truck x - Plant closings mid-sized vans on Friday, May 13. Toledo, Ohio (North) truck x x Plant Week(s) Units lost down per week The plant opened in March 1935. In Toledo, Ohio (South) truck x x its 70 years, it produced 12.3 million DaimlerChrysler Ford vehicles. Over the years, the plant 5/9-5/13 5/14 Conner Avenue (Detroit) 5/16 60 Kansas City SUV built Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile Chevy Astro production has ended. (Kansas City, Mo.) truck x - Ford and Pontiac cars. Cars were built Lorain, Ohio truck x x St. Louis 5/16 1,650 Twin Cities (St. Paul, Minn.) 5/16 1,900 there until March 1984. Five months tion of the Pontiac Grand Am. The GM Wayne, Mich. 5/16 5,075 later production started on the Astro plant also built the Chevrolet Classic. 5/16-5/20 5/21 Wixom, Mich. 5/16 1,475 and Safari. During World War II, the The M plant and Lansing C, which Bowling Green, Ky. car x - Oshawa, Ontario GM plant made airplane fuselages. closed in June, built a combined (Line 2) car - x Wilmington, Del.
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