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- General Motors Saginaw Steering Gear Plant 2, nicknamed the Gun Plant, was a major manufacturer for the United States war machine during WWII. M1919A4 machine guns and M1 Carbines were produced in great numbers and in excellent quality in the Gun Plant. These guns were enormous for helping United States soldiers win on the battlefield.
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Oct 11, 2015 · General Motors Saginaw Steering Gear Plant 2, nicknamed the Gun Plant, was a major manufacturer for the United States war machine during WWII. M1919A4 machine guns and M1 Carbines were produced in great numbers and in excellent quality in the Gun Plant.
- Joshua Mapes
The Saginaw Steering Gear Plant #2 won the Army-Navy "E" Award three times during World War Two. In July 1942 Saginaw Steering Gear (SSG) took over management of an unused Chevrolet plant in Atlanta, GA for the production of 37mm shot for anti-tank guns.
Oct 11, 2015 · In the case of Saginaw Steering Gear the gun stocks came from Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. and Trimble Nursery & Furniture Co. As a result the Saginaw plant never actually made its own stock and avoided setting up that portion of production (6).
- Ed Glowacki
Nov 2, 2012 · Saginaw Steering Gear was approached about the manufacture of machine guns and agreed to undertake an engineering study contract and provide sample weapons, drawings, tooling and the production data necessary to set up a plant for air cooled Browning .30 caliber machine guns.
Apr 11, 2016 · Among the first General Motors subsidiaries to become actively involved in manufacturing arms was the Saginaw Steering Gear Division in Saginaw, Mich. Saginaw’s participation in producing military...
Saginaw Malleable Iron Division (SMI) was formed in 1917 and became part of General Motors in 1919, at which point there were three plants in the Division, Saginaw Malleable Iron, a grey iron Foundry, which became part of Chevrolet and Saginaw Steering Gear, which became its own division in 1921.
Both the Saginaw Steering Gear and Inland Manufacturing Divisions of General Motors received Second World War defense contracts to produce M1 carbines. In addition, GM's Guide Lamp Division also manufactured the Liberator pistol and the M3 "Grease Gun."
