...and this is how we prospered and grew.Believe me, it wasn't pretty and you'll see it wasn't easy.
Making Chevies in 1936.
The opening pictures of the Chevrolet Power Plant are similar to the Power Plant from the Ford Highland Park Plant which is on display in The Ford Museum. Actually it was the first exhibit on site there as it was moved to Dearborn and they built the museum around it. The Ford Power Plant made 6,000 HP at 60 rpm.
About half way through the film you'll see a worker sizing the engine cylinders with a dial gauge. I performed the same work at Pontiac Motors 31 years later working in Engine Plant 9. The dial gauge was divided into sections, each section being assigned a letter of the alphabet. We had a set of dies in front of us, one for each letter, and with a hammer we'd stamp whatever letter the gauge read in the steel right below the cylinder.
While the plant closed for model "change-over" to ready the plants capabilities for the subsequent model year in July, the 326 engine was phased out and when we returned at the end of July we were inspecting Pontiac's new 350 cubic inch V-8.
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