LANSING — State lawmakers on Thursday approved giving Ford Motor Co. a $101 million incentive to spend $1.1 billion and add 3,030 jobs at four existing Michigan plants and at a new packaging center.The Senate Appropriations Committee's 14-3 vote came after the House Appropriation Committee…
The automaker will make improvements to nine factories in the state, along with Ohio and Kansas operations. It also will build a new shipping facility in Monroe.
We continue our Abandoned History coverage of the Ford Cruise-O-Matic transmission today, shortly after the three-speed automatic established itself as a reliable motivation source for Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury products. Developed by the Warner Gear division of Borg-Warner, the new automatic caught Ford up to the competition as far as an automatic offering was concerned. Efficient and economical to build, Studebaker got in on the Cruise-O-Matic action for their cars too.After the box proved itself on Ford and Mercury cars, it spread to the luxurious '55 Lincoln lineup where it replaced the four-speed GM Hydra-Matic. We pick up there, as efforts got underway to improve upon the original Borg-Warner design and add whiz-bang features.
The automaker will make improvements to nine factories in the state, along with Ohio and Kansas operations. It also will build a new shipping facility in Monroe.