[SCG] FYI - Production Line Had Priority

[WillSmithIndoorPS]

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:19:32 -0700
From: chevrobilia at juno.com
Subject: Re: [SCG] Battery hold down washers

Hi,
Yes, most plants had runners who would make emergency trips to auto &
hardware wholesalers, and even hardware stores for something like mundane
washers. So did Willow Run. ANYTHING to avoid stopping the line... Dave
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In '57 I worked for a Body Shop owner who had been the first Body Shop 
Foreman at the B-O-P Assy Plant in Arlington, TX in '54 when it opened. He 
said one day he was instructed to remove the A-Pillar from certain cars in 
the shipping lot because the line supply was gone and they needed to keep 
the line running so he sent a crew to the lot with torches and the pillars 
were removed for re-use. I wasn't there but he never gave me any reason to 
disbelieve him.

Will Smith
Allen, TX