Ad from the Border Cities Star – December 31, 1926.
Funny how diversified our industries used to be. Somewhere along the line some genius decided putting all your eggs in one basket was a better idea.
This plant was located on Kildare Road, immediately south of Cunningham Sheet Metal. The side today is a parking lot for the GM Plant. Plant one was located directly across the street. That site is also a GM parking lot today.
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app could you send me the photos of the remains of the ford plant on riverside dr. I would be interested in seeing them. Thank you
ME - right as usual. needless to say, i wasn't thinking about the car.
man, i miss being here on a perminent bases. :(
If I can dig them up I will forward them to Andrew.
The reason Windsor became a one-horse town is because the great wages and benefits offered by the old Big 3 made it nearly impossible for non-automotive enterprises to find good workers in Windsor and Essex County unless they matched the Big 3 on wages and benefits. As a result, a lot of smaller companies were forced to leave Windsor or were driven out of business by employees who wanted the same wages and benefits that their compatriots were getting from the Big 3. Throw in Windsor's reputation as a militant union town, which discouraged a lot of companies from moving to move to Windsor, and you have a future ghost town.
I was told the reason Walker metals closed after the short Chrysler purchase was due to various safety and health violations that Chrysler accidentally purchased with the company, I do know in the U.S they were dealing with some similar health and safety problems at Eldon axle in Michigan which they were taking a lot of heat about, do you think it was cheaper to close the plant that fix the violations? The reason it was not feasable to close Eldon axle was it supplied most of the company's axles. Any more information would be great!
I recently discovered via some archival Vernon's City of Windsor directories that my grandmother was employed at Walker Metal Products (ca 1944-47) as an "iron pourer" of all things. Neither she nor my father ever made mention of this to me.
I have a photo of her with a group of 12 other women in "Rosie-the-Riveter" garb posing outside of a factory. I want to determine if this was taken on the grounds of Walker Metal Products or if it dates to the earlier 40's when I understood her to have held a war-time factory job in Northern Ontario. I'd like to know exactly where this foundry was located so that I can compare some of the homes I see depicted in the photo's background to those in the same vicinity in the present day.