This message is a reply to an archived post by Gordy from Iowa on September 26, 2010 at 17:19:52.
The original subject was "Re: Louisville Farmall Plant?".
In the summer of 84 they had a huge auction to rid the property of all the old machines tools etc left over from part production that had ceased years before. I'll never forget seeing a line of old Schauer lathes that was at least as long as a football field. There must have been over a hundred of them. That was a whole lot of hand finishing something or the other.
The forge shop was still pressing crankshaft blanks Navistar and of all thing Toyota. IN fact after IH sold the property to a local investment group who continued making crankshaft blanks. When the airport took the property in 88 or so (Iminent Domain) they moved that forge shop closer to Georgetown Ky. where the Toyota plant.
The original subject was "Re: Louisville Farmall Plant?".
In the summer of 84 they had a huge auction to rid the property of all the old machines tools etc left over from part production that had ceased years before. I'll never forget seeing a line of old Schauer lathes that was at least as long as a football field. There must have been over a hundred of them. That was a whole lot of hand finishing something or the other.
The forge shop was still pressing crankshaft blanks Navistar and of all thing Toyota. IN fact after IH sold the property to a local investment group who continued making crankshaft blanks. When the airport took the property in 88 or so (Iminent Domain) they moved that forge shop closer to Georgetown Ky. where the Toyota plant.
