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The 4th of July, 1962 was on a Wednesday. Do you think that the St. Louis Assembly plant shutdown for just that day...or did they shutdown for the entire week? I'm trying to validate the time span from my engine assb. at Flint to vehicle production at St. Louis. Anyone have any assembly plant historical knowledge?
Also, can someone tell me the birthday of 62 corvette #11887 ?
Thanks, Steve Wittler
John, the tool is accurate to a point. It is off by a day here and there on some cars that were build on Saturday and the tool has that Saturday as a non production day. The only way to prove a different day than the tool is to have original documentation for the car. I know of at least one.
Bill, no. The Birthday of the car is when the car was completely finished and it exited the line, it had the accompanying paperwork at that time. Others will help on this but as I recall the VIN had not been assigned when the body was completed. The body still needed to have the marriage with the chassie, etc.... Lots' more to do.
Harry, (or others),
Do you know the circumstances that would or would not make Sat. a work day? I've always calculated birthdays based on a 6 day work week (or several other plants as well). Now I'm learning that a 5 day work week was the "norm". Could you help clarify that please?
There are a few folks that regularly post that were there during the midyear production. Hopefully they will answer the question. Also, there may be something in the archives on this????
Back in the 60's, they only got the holiday day off, for a few selected holidays; the "extended holiday" days off didn't start until the mid- to late 70's. The "standard" work week is five days (or 240 days per year), although Saturdays were scheduled when demand required it - nobody has those records for St. Louis as far as I know.
Component plants (like engine plants) worked overtime most of the time, and stamping plants worked Saturdays almost all the time - Sundays and daily 12-hour shifts weren't unusual in the stamping plants.
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