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DETROIT TRANSMISSION PLANT

The Detroit Transmission Plant was a General Motors factory in Livonia, Michigan.

History

The plant opened in ? and was closed after vital equipment was destroyed by a major fire in 1953. Exceptional efforts by General Motors management, engineers, logistics experts, and contractors to rebuild the transmission production system in a new location at Willow Run in a matter of weeks, and thereby sustain vehicle production with only a short interruption.

Products

The plant produced GM Hydramatic automatic transmissions, and because of this, was also referred to as "the Hydramatic plant."