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Ford Motor Co. posts the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter, the Associated Press reports. AP says the company will retool two more Nort...
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.
The last of the big Ford LTDs to be made in Louisville leaves the assembly line at Assembly Plant. The next LTD model for the plant would be a foot shorter and 600 pounds lighter.
Employment at the Kentucky Truck Plant peaks at 4,400.
Louisville Assembly Plant added production of light trucks, ceased production of passenger cars in 1981. Production of the Ranger began in 1982, and production of the Bronco II began in 1983.
The Kentucky Truck Plant employed 4,200 people in 1972.
Truck production was shifted to the new $100 million Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane. Plant produced "Louisville line" of medium-, heavy- and extra-heavy-duty trucks. Output was expected t...
The Assembly Plant adds Edsel production. The picture shows Job number 344, the last Edsel to be built, a tan station wagon, as it rolls off the Ford Motor Company assembly line with no fanfare No...
Louisville Assembly Plant opens on Fern Valley Road, assembling all truck models and 16 of 17 body that Ford offers.
Ford disclosed that it would build a new plant at Louisville. Ralph Cordiner, president of General Electric Co., suggested that Ford expand elsewhere because the presence of the new plant and GE's ...
New plant opens at 1400 Southwestern Parkway. It produces 400 cars a day, including the Model T and Model A. V-8 engines and Jeeps are produced during World War II. The plant closes in April 1955.
Production starts in a four-story brick building on South Third Street, where 7,000 vehicles a year are assembled. The plant closes in 1925.
Construction started on a four-story brick building on South Third. Production started in 1916, with 53 employees building 7,000 vehicles annually. The plant closed in 1925, and the building is now...
Opened assembly operations, where 12 Model-T bodies were assembled a day in two small shops at Third and Breckinridge streets.
Opened its first local sales and service office on South Third Street.
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