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Robert Plant sings “The May Queen,” a lush acoustic number off his recent Carry Fire, amid dark blue lights in the song’s new live video. He leans into the microphone, tenses his shoulders ...
With its carefully orchestrated production lines mangled beyond recognition, the Willow Run GM Powertrain plant sits as the discarded exoskeleton of Ypsilanti Township’s once-humming ...
The original Willow Run plant was later over-taken by General Motors to build cars. Now, it's scheduled to be demolished as part of the 2009 GM bankruptcy restructuring.
It was at Willow Run where Ford Motor Company built 8,685 B-24 Liberators from 1942 until the end of World War II. At its peak, the facility employed 42,000 people and produced one B-24 every 55 ...
Auto workers at Willow Run have slammed the move to shutter the plant -- which is about 30 miles west of Detroit and makes engine transmissions -- saying the facility is one of GM's best and can ...
Willow Run was never a massive success in peacetime. Henry Kaiser, who wanted to rival the Big Three, bought the plant, and in 1947 he employed 15,000 people there. But by 1953, when the plant was ...