Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant: “Assembly Lines of Defense” – 1941 Chrysler Corporation
circa 1955: Detroit is the seventh largest city in the United States and a centre for the car-manufacturing industry. (Photo by Carl Purcell/Three Lions/Getty Images)
How the assembly lines of the Automobile industry became the assembly lines of defense. Chrysler’s construction effort at the plant in 1941 was one of the fastest on record.During World War II, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant built a quarter of the 89,568 tanks produced in the U.S. overall. The Korean War boosted production for the first time since World War II had ended; the government would suspend tank production after each war. In May 1952, Chrysler resumed control from the army, which had been unable to ramp up production.
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