Vintage automobile factories

Southgate Plant Los Angeles

 

Workers on the front end assembly line for the 1948 to ’49 Packard Eight 22nd Series cars.

 

A sea of leather drive belts power small turret lathes at the Cadillac plant in 1902. Note the hanging gas lamps above the right-hand walkway.


Courtesy of The Old motor

 

Workers at the body drop station of the Pontiac assembly line in 1958 lowering the coachwork onto a chassis.

 

Women hard at work at the Lincoln Motor Company assembly plant in 1917 pressure testing intake manifolds used on the Liberty V-12 aircraft engine.

 

Here we see this 1968 Electra with the ultra rare Africa Safari lighting group. This was a $613.00 option, and was quite costly to maintain. Even with Raymond Bailey aka Milborn Drysdale as the option spokesman it only found its way on 4 cars.