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  2. Product Miniature Company - Wikipedia

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    Product Miniature Company, or known by the acronym PMC, was a company that manufactured pre-assembled plastic promotional models cars, banks and toys in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was started by brothers William Edward "Ed" and Paul Ford in 1946. Car model production, the company mainstay, ended about 1965.

  3. Lordstown Assembly - Wikipedia

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    The Lordstown Complex is a factory building and automotive manufacturing plant in Lordstown, Ohio, U.S. Lordstown is an industrial suburb of Youngstown, Ohio.. It was a General Motors automobile factory from 1966 to 2019, comprising three facilities: Vehicle Assembly, Metal Center, and Paint Shop.

  4. Model car - Wikipedia

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    On the heels of the promotional model business, Aluminum Model Toys or AMT introduced model car kits in 1957. Jo-Han, Revell and Monogram also started producing model car kits about this same time. Most of these were known as "annual" kits, and were the unassembled kit version of the promotional models or 'promos' representing the new cars that ...

  5. Oklahoma City Assembly - Wikipedia

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    On December 6, 2005, General Motors alerted the United Auto Workers local 1999 that the plant would be closed in February 2006 as part of cost-saving measures. The last vehicle produced at the plant, a white Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT, rolled out on February 20, 2006. The Oklahoma City Assembly plant was the first of 12 GM manufacturing plants ...

  6. Framingham Assembly - Wikipedia

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    The Framingham location was the center of several contentious tug-of-wars between Governor Michael Dukakis and local politician Anthony M. Colonna.After the town refused to sell General Motors a 35-acre (140,000 m 2), town-owned piece of property GM desired for the construction of a new paint and plastics facility, [3] Dukakis used the state's power of eminent domain to take the property from ...

  7. Aluminum Model Toys - Wikipedia

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    Aluminum Model Toys (AMT) is an American brand of scale model vehicles. The former manufacturing company was founded in Troy, Michigan, in 1948 by West Gallogly Sr. AMT became known for producing 1:25 scale plastic automobile dealer promotional model cars and friction motor models, and pioneered the annual 3-in-1 model kit buildable in stock, custom, or hot-rod versions.

  8. Jo-Han - Wikipedia

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    While most products were Chrysler, AMC, and GM, some Fords that AMT did not have did make their way to Jo-Han such as the Ford Maverick and Gran Torino in their introductory years (1970 and 1972). The Maverick was available molded in at least five colors: medium green, dusty rose (kind of a rosy gray), butterscotch, light blue, and red.

  9. Model Products Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.