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.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1946
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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.

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.

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.

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.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 16, 1958
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CARRIED AWAY BY GIFT: Mrs. Dick Winchester of 1500 Woodland Dr. was dumbfounded this morning when she saw this car parked on their front lawn. A gag gift from friends, it saluted Winchester's birthday. Winchester, however, was out of the city and doesn't yet know about his highly decorated present.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 24, 1946
Caption:
FIRST KAISER ROLLS OFF LINE AT WILLOW RUN: The automotive world received partial answer to its curiosity regarding Kaiser-Frazer production at the Willow Run bomber plant Saturday afternoon when the above car, a Kaiser, became the first assembly line production to come from the plant. This car and others of the early batch will be sent to Los Angeles for retail sale.