Title	Frigidaire assembly line
Subject	Industries--Ohio--Dayton Assembly lines Factories--United States General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division, Dayton, Ohio
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Moraine (Ohio) Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description	Workers on factory assembly line assembling refrigerator doors, and other parts. The General Motors Corporation Frigidaire Division Plant No. 1, was located at 300 Taylor St., in Dayton, Ohio and together with the assembling plant at Moraine, south of Dayton, was the world's largest producer of electric refrigeration equipment and was Dayton's biggest single industry. GM spent $1.2 billion to convert the refrigerator plant to a truck-building plant, re-employing hundreds who had lost their jobs when GM sold the Frigidaire division in 1979 and it was closed. The GM plant announced the closure of the plant in 2008.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	1930-1940 circa
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B08F01_002_001.tif
Image Height	6003
Image Width	4891
File Size	88110016 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-04-30
Date modified	2011-04-25

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