Thanks for the nifty historic flics.
It was almost the same as the old Schwinn factory inn Chicago where I worked
a few times during the '50's as inspector for full-time seasonal help to get
Santa's orders out.
The thing that made Schwinn far more successful was that they had a several
hundered foot long assembly line.
The bikes were on seatposts upside down moving slowly along and workers on
both sides of the line assembled the various components onto the frame to
complete the bikes and then they were taken off, flipped right side up,
given a final inspection, then wheeled away for packing into cartons at an
adjacent station.
Brought back some fun nostalgia memories.
Thanks again.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
shoes advert 1950
> At 02:12 PM 9/17/06 -0700, Jan Heine wrote:
>
>>The French bike industry worried about the American bike industry,
>>apparently poised to take over the world. Rumors circulated that the
>>Americans were equipped to make 10,000,000 bikes a year. That easily
>>would have supplied the French, German, Dutch and Italian markets
>>combined. And with Americans rumored to be so efficient,
>>state-of-the-art, etc., the bikes probably were going to be better
>>and cheaper than anything European manufacturers had to offer.
>
> And this is how they were made:
>
> http://www.webcastgroup.com/
>
> (Click to view)
>
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, ON
> Canada