Long Beach Assembly
Long Beach Assembly was a Ford Motor Company assembly plant located in Long Beach, California that operated from 1930 until 1957. The address was 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, in a region called Cerritos Channel on Terminal Island. A bridge called the Henry Ford Bridge is still located at the former plant site. The Ford Model A was the first vehicle to be built, with operations beginning March 1930. The location was closed when the Los Angeles Assembly in Pico Rivera opened in 1958.
The location was one of several factories designed by architect Albert Kahn who was the chief architect for Ford factories all across the United States. The location built Lincoln, Mercury and Ford products that were sold throughout the American Southwest.
During the Second World War, the location was used as a supply base by the United States Army Air Corps, with automobile production resuming December 1945. During the Depression of the 1930s, the Long Beach Assembly plant manufactured trucks that were used to build the Hoover Dam. The facility was briefly closed from December 1932 until February 1935.
Ford closed down an earlier Los Angeles Assembly that had been in operation since 1911: first at 12th and Olive Streets and after 1914 at East Seventh Street and Santa Fe Avenue where the factory that built Ford Model T is still standing, having been converted into apartment buildings.
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