"E92M3" (E46M3)
05/21/2018 at 13:30 • Filed to: None
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"E92M3" (E46M3)
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 13:35 |
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Ok I need this very very badly
ranwhenparked
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 13:42 |
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Yeah, most major automakers at least dabbled in appliances over the years. GM had Frigidaire, Ford had Philco, Chrysler had AirTemp, BL had Prestcold, American Motors had Kelvinator (briefly).
jimz
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 13:46 |
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yep. and owning Frigidaire is what got them A/C hardware for their cars.
they used that style compressor from the late ‘50s up through the early/mid ‘80s.
LOREM IPSUM
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 13:48 |
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The name Frigidaire became synonymous with refrigerator amongst my grandparents generation. Didn’t matter who manufactured it, they were all Frigidaires.
WilliamsSW
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 13:48 |
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Yep - my first job out of college was at the Harrison Radiator plant in Moraine, Ohio. We built A/C compressors and accumulator/dehydrators there. Right behind that plant was a GM Truck & Bus plant churning out S-10 Blazers. It had been converted over, being originally a Frigidaire plant - which was how the long-timers still referred to it.
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jimz
> ranwhenparked
05/21/2018 at 13:49 |
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yep, AMC formed from the merger of Hudson and Nash-Kelvinator. IIRC it was the sale of Kelvinator which partially funded AMC’s purchase of Kaiser-Jeep.
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jimz
> WilliamsSW
05/21/2018 at 13:53 |
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lot of history sticks around those kinds of places. ‘bout 10 years ago I worked at DaimlerChrysler Plymouth Road Offices (colloquially known as JTE) which used to be AMC’s engineering facility (and Nash, and Kelvinator before that.) even in 2006 there were plenty of parts carriers and things like scrap metal hoppers with the AMC logo on them.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> WilliamsSW
05/21/2018 at 13:57 |
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Hey, my mom’s first big contract buy for GM was buying the labor and contractors to upgrade the plant for the 90's Blazer/Jimmy twins!
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WilliamsSW
> jimz
05/21/2018 at 14:00 |
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It certainly does - I went to work there in 1990, and there were *numerous* people in my department whose seniority dates were in the 1940's. Oldest one I recall was 1946 - the year before my mother was born. And that was in what was considered the least desirable department (assembly) - down in the screw machine and punch press departments there were lots of guys with 40+ years in.
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WilliamsSW
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
05/21/2018 at 14:02 |
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Ha - you’re talking about the 4-doors, I presume? Or the original conversion to auto assembly?
The 4-door Blazer/Jimmy came out around the time I started - kept that plant running full steam ahead while I was there.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> WilliamsSW
05/21/2018 at 14:12 |
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I know exactly where that plant is. We drive by it at last once a month.
Also of note, the Delco in AC-Delco is an acronym for Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company; founded by Charles Kettering of Dayton, Ohio, who invented the automotive self-starter.
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 14:29 |
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Toyota stated making looms in 2924, then cars came in 1935.
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WilliamsSW
> ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
05/21/2018 at 15:39 |
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Hmm, this led me to Street View, where I was suprised/not surprised to learn that it’s gone - completely. Even the building is long gone.
The Frigidaire/Truck & Bus plant (on Springboro Pike) is still there though. Harrison Radiator was right behind it, on Dryden Road.
ThePlasticOne - no diggities expressed nor implied.
> E92M3
05/21/2018 at 17:17 |
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So?
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MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> jimz
05/22/2018 at 01:28 |
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My 85 Jag has it too. I know this because it was surprisingly easy to get a new wiring harness for it. It still works too.
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jimz
> MiniGTI - now with XJ6
05/22/2018 at 06:28 |
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Jag, Bentley, and a couple other manufacturers used them too. It was an axial/swash plate type which could spin faster, so it was more compact and didn’t need an enormous pulley/damper like the conventional piston compressors Ford and Chrysler were using at the time.
