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The Greenfield plant design team for the turbine program

Left to Right - Robert Pauley, Reggie Bloor, Bill Fox, John Mozni - (Manager), Marcella McKenzie - (Secretary), Al Simek, Charley Gallaher, Harold Liephart, Mike Rogowski, Ed Caldwell, Sy Schemansky and Charley Lux. These people worked very closely with the Engineering labs at Highland Park to make the assembly of the turbine cars a success. (Note: this photo was taken by Robert F. Pauley who was the Chrysler Research Design Supervisor from 1953 to 1981. I am still trying to figure out how he appears in the photo also.)

(Thanks to Mr. Schemansky's son for sharing this photo with me and two former engineers who supplied the names to the faces.)

The Greenfield plant was the only turbine car assembly plant in the United States. Below is a shot of the assembly line at the plant. Up to three cars were under construction at a time as the bodies arrived from Italy.

The Greenfield plant as it appeared in 2005.

Thanks to Steve Lehto* for his contribution of these two photos of Greenfield where the fifty Ghia cars were assembled in 1963 and 1964. The plant today is being used as a warehouse by a popcorn company and the front offices house an insurance agent.

Below is a aerial photo from Google Earth (tm) that shows where the only Turbine Car assembly plant in the USA is located (2005 anyway.)

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