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Moraine Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Dayton. A Frigidaire appliance plant had originally operated on the site from 1951 to 1979. Starting in 1981, the Chevrolet S-10 small pickup was produced.
The Dayton Motor Car Company Historic District, in Dayton, Ohio, is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included 12 contributing buildings .
Pierce D. Schenck of Dayton established the Speedwell Motor Car Company with a $50,000 capitalization. He hired Gilbert J. Loomis, who had built Loomis cars in Massachusetts, as Chief engineer. [2] [1] The first Speedwells had Rutenber four and six-cylinder engines on wheelbases of 116 and 132 inches.
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Because these cars were all stock models, Dayton Motor Car lost no time in letting the motoring public know. In 1909, a two-seater Stoddard-Dayton won the first race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, averaging 57.3 miles per hour (92.2 km/h). The first pace car ever was a Stoddard-Dayton driven by Carl G. Fisher to start the Indianapolis 500 in 1911.
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Ohio (17 P) Pages in category "Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Ohio" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
Moraine is known for its manufacturing history. From 1917 to 1923 the Dayton Wright Airplane company [6] operated an aircraft manufacturing plant on the current site of the Moraine Assembly. During its years of operation over 4000 aircraft were built including the DeHavilland observer/bomber plane (a First World War British design).