1955 Plymouth assembly line
1960fury
Posted 2017-10-04 5:43 PM (#549771)
Subject: 1955 Plymouth assembly line



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esJe37DSCI

just noticed its part of "wishes on wheels" which has been posted several times before, couldn't delete it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0ykX9lPU

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Sonoramic60
Posted 2017-10-04 6:07 PM (#549773 - in reply to #549771)
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Did you note the lack of safety equipment? There doesn't seem to be any eye or head protection. Those assembly line jobs were not only b-o-r-i-n-g, but also just plain dangerous.
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1960fury
Posted 2017-10-04 6:22 PM (#549775 - in reply to #549773)
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yes Joe, but working on the prettiest cars in automobile history made up for that and its not much different than when i was restoring my cars and painted them with red lead... (shortly before this stuff became illegal).

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1960fury
Posted 2017-10-04 6:49 PM (#549778 - in reply to #549775)
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over the last couple of years i really developed a love for the early plymouth/dodge forwardlooks that i before didn't consider really as FL. i changed my mind, which is rarely the case and i even love them as convertibles, a body style i never liked.
i think they carry the pastell colors, whitewalls and fenderskirts particularly nice.



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57chizler
Posted 2017-10-05 1:40 PM (#549820 - in reply to #549773)
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Sonoramic60 - 2017-10-04 3:07 PM
Did you note the lack of safety equipment?


And the lack of back-saving assistance devices? Nowadays, anything that is heavy/bulky is installed with lift-assist devices, sometimes robotic.
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Chrycoman
Posted 2017-10-06 5:38 PM (#549900 - in reply to #549771)
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Noticed that the people painting the cars wore respirators. Apparently some painters at American Motors did not even wear face masks. One fellow who worked there in 1955 or 1956 wrote in an article for Collectible Automobile about his experiences at AMC. He believed they were using water-based paints and thus did not need therm. AMC was actually using the same enamel paints as Chrysler at the time. No water-based paints until the 1980's. He also stated he would start coughing and the stuff that came up was the same colours as he was using to paint the cars. He apparently never had any lung problems in the years since. Scary stuff.

The February, 1956 issue of Popular Mechanics had an article on the building of the new 1956 Rambler. The article shows the building of the car from the assembly of the body through to driving the completed car out of the plant. In the article the primer was applied to the car by two workers without face masks or respirators. In the painting area two of the workers are using respirators while the worker painting the rear of the car has no protection. And later the worker applying the paint for the two tone roof had no protection.

The "tour guide" in the film mentions the plant could build 190 cars an hour. That means the assembly plant they were showing off was the Plymouth Plant on Lynch Avenue in Detroit. The Lynch Road plant had three separate assembly lines and thus each line could produce over 60 cars an hour. Bodies were built at the former Briggs plant on Mack Avenue and trucked to Lynch Road. V8 engines for the 1955 models were Dodge engines with polyheads and built at Dodge Main. Again, trucked over to Lynch Road. The A block poly went into production for 1956 and they were built at the new engine plant on Mound Road, north of Detroit. The property on Mound Road was one of a number of plants acquired with the purchase of Briggs Body.

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mikes2nd
Posted 2017-10-06 6:12 PM (#549902 - in reply to #549771)
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How do you paint and bake 190 cars an hour, or maybe they baked overnight all night? Would explain the black guys breathing paint and working night shifts. I bet none of those guys made it to their 50's... they wore "Nose" breathers... "no no its safe, trust us!..." laughable protection, probably took a bath in lacquer thinner on the way out...



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56D500boy
Posted 2017-10-11 1:15 AM (#550135 - in reply to #549902)
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At around 1:40 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esJe37DSCI it shows two men flipping and then installing a 55 Plymouth hood. They make the hood look very light.

How heavy is a hood? I am thinking of removing mine so I can paint it standing up. I know I would need help but can two guys easily remove a hood (and then install it back again)?



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Viper Guy
Posted 2017-10-11 5:59 PM (#550169 - in reply to #550135)
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56D500boy - 2017-10-11 12:15 AM

At around 1:40 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esJe37DSCI it shows two men flipping and then installing a 55 Plymouth hood. They make the hood look very light.

How heavy is a hood? I am thinking of removing mine so I can paint it standing up. I know I would need help but can two guys easily remove a hood (and then install it back again)?

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Indeed, it is easy for two to handle the removal and installation of a hood. But a third person could hold the hood up in the front to keep the hood from falling. Hint - remove the rear most bolts on each side last. That way the hood will not drop down off the mounts until these bolts are removed.
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Chrycoman
Posted 2017-10-22 1:54 AM (#550776 - in reply to #550169)
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How to bake a car.

After painting the car in the paint booth, the body through the drying oven - a tunnel of infrared heat lamps - and then down the assembly line. After the car is assembled and some touch-ups are done to repair errors the car again goes through a drying oven.

Attached is a photo of a 1964 Studebaker Daytona coming out of the second drying oven at the end of the assembly line.



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60 dart
Posted 2017-10-22 4:42 AM (#550778 - in reply to #549771)
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its good to have more hands when removing a hood . but when one only has 2 and an old blanket , it works . i've done more than a few by myself and it helps to be able to
use either hand on a wrench/ratchet . most days i'd rather work by myself anyways as not many are willing to listen to my mouth ----------------------------------------------later
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Posted 2017-10-22 9:22 AM (#550783 - in reply to #550778)
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Posted 2017-10-22 2:58 PM (#550804 - in reply to #550783)
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Would have been much more interesting to watch if it had been a Fury, D-500 or convert of any line!
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