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After three weeks, tensions started to run high in Cleveland. The city’s largest automotive factory, the Albert Kahn-designed seven-story Fisher Body plant on the corner of Coit Road and East 140th Street, which dated to 1921 and at the time built two-door Chevrolet bodies, had been strike-bound since the UAW-CIO – at the time a […]
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Tagged Cleveland Ohio, Eliot Ness, factories, featured posts, Fisher Body, Hemmings Classic Car, labor, labor unrest, picketing, riot, strike, UAW, UAW-CIO, unions
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* The Smithsonian wants your help in deciding which two of its cars it should bring out of storage to display in the National Museum of American History by voting for one of eight historically significant cars. A Tucker (would that be #1039?) is one of the eight. Voting lasts through January 11. (via) * […]
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* Over on Autoholics, the latest evolution of the CarDomain blog, FuryPaul recently posted photos of his trip to the Owls Head Transportation Museum, where he spotted this Model T modified for railroad track inspection. It’s the cowcatcher that we dig the most. * I thought Fidel owned an Oldsmobile? Motoring Con Brio offered a […]
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Tagged Alfa Romeo, factories, Fidel Castro, ford, Ford Model T, Harley-Davidson, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Jeep, Leslie Special, military vehicles, motorcycles and scooters, one-offs and homebuilts, Rikuo, Sankyo, The ballad of Cable Hogue, The Great Race, track inspection vehicle, trucks and Jeeps, TV and film cars, Willys, World War II