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Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
BEAUTY TREATMENT: The first of many paint jobs will be applied at the spray booth, shown above. Tracks will carry the bodies slowly through the booth, then lead into the drying chamber, or bake oven, which stands in the background. A workman here checks the tracks to make sure they're ready for the job that lies ahead.

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
CONVERSION JOB: Converting the great war plant into a peactime maker of automobiles is a job for 1,000 men. Shown above is one of the contractors' employes cutting metal sheets for the drying ovens where newly-painted bodies will be baked. Heat ducts for the ovens stand in the foreground.

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
WHERE BODIES WILL BAKE: Assembly lines will carry car bodies through spraying booths, then baking ovens in series. The four ovens pictured above stand along the four main assembly lines. [Indecipherable microfilm] ...on a car b's body at 275 degrees Fahrenheit. Then the body will go through another spray booth and another oven, repeating the process until several coats are applied.

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
IT'S LONG AND HOT: Tracks have already been laid through this longest of the bake ovens at Kaiser-Frazer's Willow Run. Low vehicles placed on the tracks will carry the car bodies more than 200 feet through this drying chamber. The ovens have been one of the first auto-making installations put in at the former bomber plant.

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
Caption:
LOADING DOCKS: In war days bombers wheeled off the lines and out the huge doors in the background to take off under their own power at the Willow Run airport. Now automobiles will drive up the ramp and onto the 700-foot long concrete docks shown above. Space is left for two rail spurs that will be the principal outlet for new cars.

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s reconversion of Willow Run Bomber Plant, February 1946 image
Year:
1946
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 1, 1992
Caption:
Workers convert the Willow Run bomber plant back to an auto plant -- for the Kaiser-Frazer auto company -- in February 1946.