Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 22, 1959
Caption:
Smaller-Car Factory Site: This is an aerial view of the new, multi-million dollar General Motors Corp. plant at Willow Run. An announcement from GM today was expected to end widespread speculation for the past 13 months that the auto firm would make a small type car, and that it would be produced at Willow Run east of Ypsilanti. The new assembly plant (1) is directly east of and connected to the former Chevrolet Truck Plant (2). A railroad siding (3), expanded at a cost of nearly $300,000, will service the new plant and now has a capacity for storing up to 125 box cars. GM's "first" plant at Willow Run is the former Ford Bomber Plant (4) which General Motors purchased five years ago for its Detroit Transmission Division.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, September 25, 1963
Caption:
Ypsilanti Ford Addition: Visible at the lower left in this aerial view of the Ford Motor Company's Ypsilanti plant is an 87,000-square-foot addition to the plant, now under construction. The addition will provide warehouse space for the plant, freeing other parts of the plant now being used for warehouse space for additional manufacturing facilities. The plant is part of Ford's General Parts Division and manufactures starters, generators, voltage regulators, ignition coils, shock absorbers, master brake cylinders, heaters, and horns.