Front:
GM
TRUCKS
CADILLAGE
LA SAL
©1933. RHD CO.
GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING AT NIGHT
Back:
39.
A CENTURY OF PROGRESS
225. General Motors Building at Night
The General Motors tower at night, with its 173 foot to were in
sheathed in varicolored light is for shining landmark visible for miles,
building is one-eighth of a mile long and 306
feet wide. The central
feature of the building is a tomplete antimobile gambly, flant, where
o people at a time may witness the assembly of automobiles. Raw mat
erials enter through one door and by the time they reach the opposite esit
tay have become finishid.core. are 24 different operations. On one
of
forming
the shape of an interted letter I. On the other side lies the Chevrolet
car assembly line. The movement of the two lines is so timed that
when a Chefrolet chassis with the wheels, fender and hood for a particular
and color combination arrives at a designated point, the corresponding
Fisher body will arrive at the double-bach fart of
the tatt the same time, ready to be mounted.
on one side
buildi
bo
tody type
COPYRIGHT, 1933, AND PUBLISHED BY
THE REUBEN H. DONNELLEY CORPORATION, CHICAGO
