St.Louis Plant 1961

[Joseph T.]

[Mark L.]

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961

Cool pic Joe.

I like the railcar full of Corvettes in the background

[Joseph T.]

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961

Cool pic Joe.

I like the railcar full of Corvettes in the background

Anyone know the first year Corvettes were shipped by rail..from St.Louis?

Joe

[Chuck L.]

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961

Unbelievable picture. That must be a diorama of every vehicle St. Louis produced in 1961. Looks like Corvettes, Impalas, Bel Airs, Suburbans, Light and Heavy duty trucks, Corvair Vans, Greenbriers, and convertibles. I know Hinckley will be able to verify. Seems like they had around 10,000 employees then.

[Michael H.]

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961

Unbelievable picture. That must be a diorama of every vehicle St. Louis produced in 1961. Looks like Corvettes, Impalas, Bel Airs, Suburbans, Light and Heavy duty trucks, Corvair Vans, Greenbriers, and convertibles. I know Hinckley will be able to verify. Seems like they had around 10,000 employees then.

The Corvette building was a completely separate/smaller building. The building in the background looks like the pass/truck building.
I think this pic was taken from behind the Corvette building, facing the big pass/truck building?

I don't know how many employees were in the Corvette building.

[John H.]

Re: St.Louis Plant 1961

I don't know how many employees were in the Corvette building.

Michael -

About 700 during the C1 era, about 1,000 during the midyear era, and about 1400 in the late C3 years.