Talk:Willow Run

War activists in 1972?
Re the following paragraph.


 * On the other side of the airport from the assembly plant were a group of World War II hangars, which were sold to the University of Michigan in 1946. The university operated Willow Run Laboratories (WRL) from 1946 to 1972. WRL produced many innovations, including first ruby laser and operation of the ruby maser. In 1972, demonstrations by Vietnam war activists forced the university to detach WRL from it.

I strongly suspect that the term "Vietnam war activists" should be "anti-Vietnam war activists".--TGC55 (talk) 04:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorensen
Be careful in citing the Sorensen book. It is important to ferret out what is overly complimentary to the Ford Motor Company.Iss246 (talk) 04:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Confusion over facilities
The Nova and Caprice were not manufactured at the "Willow Run" plant referred to in the article. Vehicle assembly was performed at a separate facility (Willow Run Assembly, built after WW2) rather than at the Ex-Ford Bomber plant. References to vehicle assembly (excluding Kaiser-built cars) should be removed. --Chico129 (talk) 15:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Nature of article
With the news of the last few weeks, it's time to rethink this article and its relatives.

I've already told anyone who cares about the Willow Run Airport article that I'm planning to move most of the Liberator-related narrative from there into this article; I'm sure there will be some complaints, but it makes more sense to have that stuff over here, so I've already copied it here, and will be rewriting that section of the Airport article later this week.

I agree that the details of production during the GM years should find their way into Willow Run Assembly and Willow Run Transmission, but there's no harm in summarizing them as part of the history of the complex, which is what this article is turning into. I have put together a decent pile of stories from local coverage, so these articles will soon become chock-full-o'cites.

I'll make a point to distinguish between the bomber plant and the add-ons to it that grew into the Powertrain plant on the one hand, and the Assembly buildings on the other. The RACER brochures lack some detail, but Google is our friend. LibertyHiller (talk) 05:56, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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