Ford confirms it will start building the Expedition and Lincoln Navigator at the Kentucky Truck Plant and small cars at the Louisville Assembly Plant. Ford says production of the Ford Expedition an...
The Louisville Ford plants escape another plant-closing announcement.
The last Excursion is built at the Kentucky Truck Plant; Louisville Assembly Plant shuts for 10 weeks to deplete inventories.
Ford announces a $73 million expansion at the Kentucky Truck Plant stamping facility, adding 100 jobs.
Louisville's Ford plants are spared from jobs cuts as part of a massive, companywide restructuring.
Ford Explorer sales peak at 445,157 vehicles.
A major expansion at the Kentucky Truck Plant - to increase production of the best-selling F-Series trucks - adds about 1,000 jobs and an annual payroll of $50 million.
Ford announces $650 million expansion at the Kentucky Truck Plant to be finished by mid-1995, creating 1,300 jobs.
Slow sales blamed on the recession cause Ford to initiate weeklong shutdowns at the Kentucky Truck Plant while workers at the Louisville Assembly Plant work overtime to make the Explorer - its 1991...
First four-door sport-utility vehicle - the Explorer - rolls off the line at the Louisville Assembly Plant. Plant later begins producing the Navajo - a two-door Explorer with a different nameplate ...
Workers and suppliers of the Kentucky Truck Plant express optimism that Ford will restore a second shift - adding up to 1,500 jobs - to build one or more heavy pickups. Ford officials say only that...
Ford announces a $260 million expansion - with 300 new jobs - at the Louisville Assembly Plant to produce a newly designed Bronco II, including a four-door version of the sport-utility vehicle.
Leonard Caller, the owner of the one-millionth truck in the Ranger/Bronco line built at the Assembly Plant, drove his 1985 Ranger pickup off the assembly line.
Phyllis George Brown drove the first Bronco II off the assembly line at the Assembly Plant.
Second shift at Kentucky Truck Plant is discontinued, after deregulation of the trucking industry and a recession depress sales.
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