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The original scan of the drawing was a lot larger file, but it was also a lot clearer when blown up. I attached the original to an email for Rick and he said that he could open it. If anyone else wants the larger file - just PM me with your email address. In the future, as I describe each production department, I'll try to include more detailed sketches of the equipment layout.
I'll try to just keep my departmental text focused on the processes, equipment, and parts. The "people" part would take a volume all by itself. There were soooo many great, hard working people at GM. People who dedicated themselves to doing their best every day. It always aggravates me when the focus is on the negative - union problem, etc. Just like today's labor force, we had our problems. I was the manufacturing management representative on our contract negotiating team - lived through strikes, crossed picket lines as all management did (if confronted, we were instructed to turn around). The foundry, by nature of the activity, was a very dangerous place - I witnessed a fatality the second week of my first Chevrolet supervisory job (second shift melt supervisor). A "king pin" broke on a hot metal delivery car - 2 tons of 2,700 degree iron spilled in the driver's lap. I can still see it and smell it to this day. An experience like that will cause plant safety to be #1 on your "to do" list for life. I'm proud to say that our Pennsylvania foundry worked a million man hours without a lost time accident several times - a record that most foundries have never accomplished.