[citydesk175]

Thanks for your kind words and assistance.

I just spoke with a GM warehouse manager who told me that serial numbers are applied at the Foundry long before they are shipped to Assembly.

Major parts are ID'd to prevent theft but also to allow for crosscharging as the parts are conducted through each value added step.

I have another call out to someone at Powertrain Massena and he might have something really definitive when he gets back next week.

Regards
citydesk175

[citydesk175]

BY The Way

After reading the definition of the Lobby....... I wish to announce that today is another milestone birthday for me. I have stopped being 60!!!

Sigh.. I am accomplishing this by turning 61 but it is a small price to pay considering the alternative methods

Regards
CityDesk175

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by citydesk175

BY The Way

After reading the definition of the Lobby....... I wish to announce that today is another milestone birthday for me. I have stopped being 60!!!

Sigh.. I am accomplishing this by turning 61 but it is a small price to pay considering the alternative methods

Regards
CityDesk175

Speaking of auspicious occasions, it was 29 years ago today that I walked through the doors at Chevrolet Flint Assembly and started my illustrious career with General Motors...

[wmhjr]

Keith, this is incredible stuff. Makes for great reading and keeps me wanting more.

[citydesk175]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Speaking of auspicious occasions, it was 29 years ago today that I walked through the doors at Chevrolet Flint Assembly and started my illustrious career with General Motors...

Congratulations Keith
Are you starting on your second 29 years with GM? Hope they are as good as the previous 29

By the way: the GM stock savings program had a list of its investors recently sorted by amount held in the program accompanied by the average age of the people in each range of holdings so it might have listed: 40,000.00 - 50,000.00, 47 employees, 37.6 average age. (for you quoters out there, this is a made up number)

There was a listing for 8 million, count was 1, average age was 80

This meant that one GM employee was still working at 80, and had assets of 8 million.
I wonder if it is worth it to work at GM till I am 80.

40 years here is almost enough

KTF
CD175

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Speaking of auspicious occasions, it was 29 years ago today that I walked through the doors at Chevrolet Flint Assembly and started my illustrious career with General Motors...

Has it been another year already?

30 years ago today I started with (...the "old"...) General Motors.

Here's to hoping we can get this thing turned around and that the "new GM" will be around for many more...

K

[citydesk175]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Has it been another year already?

30 years ago today I started with (...the "old"...) General Motors.

Here's to hoping we can get this thing turned around and that the "new GM" will be around for many more...

K

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!
3 cheers for longevity......You and the company
and to think that GM underwent all this turmoil just to feed us

Good luck in your career
and may GM last a thousand years

Regards
Ralph

[1974SD455]

Amen to previous post!

[janderson]

Originally Posted by citydesk175

Thanks for your kind words and assistance.

I just spoke with a GM warehouse manager who told me that serial numbers are applied at the Foundry long before they are shipped to Assembly.

Numbers were stamped on the engines in the Pontiac Assembly Plant on the second floor in a department refered to as the Motor Bridge. Numbers could not be stamped in the Foundry as the blocks were not milled or machined until being processed in the engine Plant #9 which was between the Assembly Plant (Plant #8) and the Foundry (Plant #6).
And yes to earlier posts...alot of tooling, equipment, parts, vehicles were damaged, lost, buried (foundry scrap), hid in scrap cars (rail cars), etc.
PMD Pontiac was a very large facility in the day...