GM Assembly Line Story

Short answer: A member shared this passage from Ben Hamper’s Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line — a vivid account of Family Night at the old Fisher Body plant in Flint:

I was seven years old the first time I ever set foot inside an automobile factory… The assembly line did indeed stink. The noise was very close to intolerable. The heat was one complete bastard.

…we found my old man down on the trim line. His job was to install windshields using this goofy apparatus with large suction cups that resembled an octopus being crucified. A car would nuzzle up to the old man’s work area and he would be waiting for it… Car, windshield. Car, windshield. Car, windshield. No wonder my father preferred playin’ hopscotch with barmaids.

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