Cadillac History: Clark Street Assembly Plant

[Jason Edge]

I think it would be good to start posting links to Cadillac History.  The idea came to me when looking for a good site to provide a contact for regarding the Clark St Assembly plant.  

I have added the following to the Help Topics page and will add more as we go along.

Cadillac History: Cadillac History: Clark St Assembly Plant

I know the Cadillac Database is THE SOURCE and will determine how best to reference it and all the great information collected here, however, if any of you have specific links to good historical information please post here in a reply and I will include on the Help Topics page. 

[Jason Edge]

ps..the pictures are great also at the link. We have used a couple on newsletters, etc.

[Jason Edge]

Thanks Tony! I will post the link to Gerry Wright's excellent write-up on the Help Page under Cadillac History after I capture this thought.   On several occasions I've been asked about the production of the bodies of the 75 series and when I read  "It was a very unique operation because the bodies were built by Fisher Body at the Fleetwood plant located about 3 miles away, and trucked to the final assembly operation and assembled into a finished product.", it reminded me that according to info I have 75 Series bodies were hand crafted in "Building 21" and had been trying to find out what the "DC" on the body name plate means when I had recently posted this on our site and the CLC Forums

"On the Body Name Plate on the 75 series I have pulled in over the years, following the word BODY is always the initials DC.  ON 62 & 63 series for the 1963's and 1964's I deal with it is FW which I understood to mean it was assembled at Fisher Body's Fleetwood Plant.   

In the book "Cadillac Fleetwood Series Seventy – Five Limousines 1937 – 1987" it says on page 5: “ Starting in 1956, Fleetwood Seventy-Five bodies were handcrafted by the skilled artisans at GM’s Plant 21 in downtown Detroit then transported in special closed trailers to the Clark Avenue plant across town.”  There is a paragraph about the and production and production #’s (6 to 12 a day), but ends by saying “ The last Series Seventy-Five bodies left Plant 21 in mid-1984”.

So DC ultimately means Plant 21,  but I have forgotten what the initials DC stand for?  I think I knew it at some point but the grey matter is not retrieving it right now!   Who knows why DC was used as the designation for these 75 series?
thanks, Jason". 
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