Ford Long Beach Assembly Plant

Various Exterior Pictures
Rail Spur, Crane & Dike
Various Exterior
Lunch Room and Rail Spur
Bathroom
Interior Rail Spur and Assembly Area
Boilers
Warehouse

Historic Photos from the 1930s
Aerial Photos 1930s-50s
Office and Pressed Steel Buildings
Interior Warehouse and Pressed Steel Building
Interior Pressed Steel Building
Interior Pressed Steel Building 2
Interior Assembly Building
Interior Assembly Building 2
Interior Assembly Building 3
Assembly Building Interior/Exterior
Assembly Building Plans
Assembly Building Plans 2
Assembly Building Plans 3
Assembly Building and Boiler House Plans
Pressed Steel Building Plans
Dock/Powerhouse/Overall Layout Pland

• Home

• Factories

• Long Beach Home
• Decision to Build
• Site Selection
• Physical and Environmental Setting
• Plant Site Requirements
• Contract and Purchase
• Long Beach and Ford Look Ahead
• Albert Kahn, Architect
• Take Off Toward Building
• The Opening
• The Work Place - Introduction
• The Organization
• Organizing Labor
• Labor Post World War II
• Social Affairs and Social Boundaries
• Labor Conclusions
• Technology and Process
• Pressed Steel Technology
• Assembly Floor
• Temporal and Technological Change
• Development: Depression Years
• Development: Post-War
• Plant Improvements
• The First Flood
• Sustained Production
• Demise Period
• Flood and Fire in 1956
• Last Days
• Demolition
• Impact Local and West Coast
• Regional and National Impact
• Site's Effect on the Physical Environment
• Plant Pictures