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Kentucky Truck Plant is an automobile manufacturing plant owned by Ford Motor Company in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Opened in 1969, [1] the 4,626,490-square-foot (429,815 m 2) plant on 500 acres (2.0 km 2) currently employs 8,500 people total.
The Lincoln Motor Company Plant was an automotive plant at Livernois, 6200 West Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan, later known as the Detroit Edison Warren Service Center. [1] The complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, due to its historic association with World War I Liberty engines and the Lincoln Motor Company .
The Lincoln Motor Company was founded in August 1917 by Henry Leland and his son Wilfred. Among the founders of Cadillac, Leland had sold Cadillac to General Motors in 1909; staying on as an executive, he left in 1917 over a dispute with GM President William Durant regarding war production.
Production of the Lincoln LS ended in early April 2006 [5] and production of the Ford GT stopped on September 21, [6] leaving the Town Car as the plant's final Ford Motor Company product. Wixom was the most profitable plant in the industry during the 1980s when Cadillac downsized its lineup and lost ground to Lincoln.
In 1922, Lincoln became insolvent and was bought out by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company. Ford's bid of $8 million was the only bid at a receivers sale. Ford had first offered $5 million, but the judge would not accept it for a well-equipped company whose assets were conservatively estimated at $16 million. [12]
KTP or KTp may refer to: Kappa Theta Pi; Karl Parker (1895–1992), British art historian; Kartu Tanda Penduduk, the Indonesian identity card; Kentucky Truck Plant, Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant also known as Kentucky Truck Assembly; Kissing the Pink; Kitchen table polyamory, a style of polyamory; Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Ford's luxury car division, Lincoln, was part of the Premier Auto Group in the late 1990s, but was pulled out in 2002 as part of Ford's marketing strategy to separate its "import" marques from its domestic ones. During the creation of PAG, Lincoln's line-up received a complete overhaul, beginning with the 1998 redesign of the Lincoln Town Car.
The Louisville Assembly Plant is an automobile manufacturing plant owned by Ford Motor Company in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] Opened in 1955, [1] the 3,154,173-square-foot (293,032.3 m 2) plant on 180 acres currently employs a total of 4,554 people. [2] It is located adjacent to the Louisville International Airport on the south side of the city.