Ford Starts the First Moving Assembly Line for a Complete Automobile

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Ford Rolls Out Its First Vehicle From the New Cologne-Niehl Plant

  Ford-Werke Plant, Niehl, Cologne, GermanyFord-Werke GmbH

  

  開始 1931/05/04確定確度 87%95.4 年前Wikipedia's^[2] Ford Germany article states the Cologne plant began production on 4 May 1931, after Henry Ford and Konrad Adenauer laid the foundation stone on 2 October 1930.

  Ford-Werke produced its first vehicle, a Model A-based truck, at the new Cologne-Niehl plant, the German headquarters Henry Ford himself helped establish with Mayor Konrad Adenauer the year before. The site grew into the mini-city-sized mega factory shown in this documentary.

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• 自動車2023/05/02@ThePinGang

  Ford will invest about $1.3 billion in its Oakville Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, to transition the facility into a new electric vehicle hub.

  Ford·…

  

  2024/06/01〜2025/01/01確定確度 83%2.3 年前Happened as dated, per cnbc.com^[1]: "…ext-generation EVs that are expected to arrive to market around mid-decade. The retooling is expecte…"

  The plant will build the company’s next-generation EVs that are expected to arrive to market around mid-decade.

  The changes to the Oakville complex will include combining three body shops into one and adding battery pack assembly, Ford said.

  The Oakville plant will continue to build the gas-powered Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers up until the plant’s downtime.

  The investment is part of Ford’s plan to have production capacity for 2 million EVs globally by the end of 2026.

  The retooling is expected to take six months and begin in the second quarter of next year, Ford said.

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Pierce Manufacturing Launches Phase I of Its High Flow Production Line

  2600 American Drive, Appleton, WI, USAPierce Manufacturing

  

  開始 2026/03/25確定確度 77%182 日前Fire Engineering's^[3] industry-news report dates Pierce Manufacturing's Phase I High Flow production line launch at its Appleton campus to March 25, 2026.

  Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Volvo Assembles Its First F7 Truck at New River Valley

  4881 Cougar Trail Road, Dublin, VA 24084, USAVolvo Trucks

  

  1982/09/01〜1982/09/30推定確度 76%44.1 年前Volvo Trucks^[4]' own 2018 press coverage dates the first North American-built Volvo truck to September 1982 without naming an exact day, so the pin spans the month.

  In September 1982, Volvo Trucks built the first Volvo-branded truck ever assembled in North America, a Volvo F7, at its newly acquired New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia. The factory has produced every Volvo truck sold in North America ever since.

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Mercedes-Benz Rolls Out Its First Complete Truck From the Wörth Plant

  Mercedes-Benz Werk Wörth, Wörth am Rhein, GermanyMercedes-Benz

  

  開始 1965/07/14確定確度 88%61.2 年前Daimler Truck's^[3] own 60th-anniversary press release, "Historic milestone at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth: First truck produced 60 years ago," names 14 July 1965 and the LP 608 model.

  Mercedes-Benz's Wörth am Rhein plant, which had assembled only truck cabs since opening in 1963, produced its first complete vehicle, a green LP 608, on 14 July 1965. The plant has since grown into the world's largest truck factory, building models including the Actros.

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• 自動車2026/09/20@TechDesk

  Ford Fathom Electric Pickup on Sale

  Ford·…Louisville Assembly Plant, Louisville, Kentucky

  開始 2027/03/31推定確度 63%189 日後Electrek^[1] says on sale in 'early 2027' with production starting Q1 2027; the last day of Q1 is used.

  Ford's Fathom, a midsize electric pickup from $28,350 and the first vehicle on its Universal EV Platform, goes into production at Louisville in Q1 2027 and on sale in early 2027.

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• 交通2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Fenton, Murray and Wood Launches the Salamanca, the First Commercial Steam Locomotive

  16 Foundry Street, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 5QP, UKFenton, Murray and Wood

  

  開始 1812/06/24確定確度 82%214.2 年前Wikipedia's^[3] Salamanca (locomotive) article and the Real Yorkshire Blog^[2] both date the locomotive's first public run to 24 June 1812.

  At the Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds, engineering firm Fenton, Murray and Wood built the Salamanca, the world's first commercially successful steam locomotive, which first ran publicly on 24 June 1812. Designed by Matthew Murray for John Blenkinsop's rack-and-pinion Middleton Railway, it hauled coal using a toothed rail system.

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• ロボット2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  General Motors Installs the First Unimate Industrial Robot

  Ewing Township, New Jersey, USAGeneral Motors·…

  

  開始 1961/01/01推定確度 70%65.7 年前Wikipedia^[3], the Henry Ford museum and Guinness World Records^[2] all date the first Unimate installation to 1961, but none give a specific month or day.

  In 1961 General Motors installed the Unimate, the world's first industrial robot, at its New Jersey factory to lift and stack hot die-cast metal parts. Industry 4.0 opens its history of factory automation with this machine.

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• 航空2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Airbus Delivers Its First A400M Atlas to the Luftwaffe

  Airbus Defence and Space Plant, San Pablo, Seville, SpainAirbus Defence and Space

  

  開始 2014/12/18確定確度 85%11.8 年前Airbus^[4] and OCCAR delivery records state the first production A400M for Germany (MSN018) was handed over to the Luftwaffe on 18 December 2014, one day before it landed at its Wunstorf home base.

  Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first production A400M Atlas military transport, assembled at its Seville final assembly line, to the German Luftwaffe.

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  BMW Rolls Out Its First Berlin-Built Motorcycle, an R 60/2

  Am Juliusturm 14-38, 13599 Berlin, GermanyBMW

  

  開始 1966/09/06確定確度 84%60 年前BMW Group's^[3] own Plant Berlin history page and its BMW Classic blog both state the first Berlin-built motorcycle, an R 60/2, rolled off the line on September 6, 1966.

  BMW's newly built assembly line at its Berlin-Spandau plant produces its first complete motorcycle, an R 60/2 with a swinging-fork chassis, kicking off the relocation of BMW motorcycle manufacturing from Munich to Berlin.

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• 航空2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Airbus Inaugurates a Robotic A320 Fuselage Line in Hamburg

  Kreetslag 10, 21129 Hamburg, GermanyAirbus

  

  開始 2019/10/01確定確度 78%7 年前Airbus's^[3] own October 1, 2019 press release, 'Airbus inaugurates new A320 structure assembly line in Hamburg', names the exact inauguration date.

  On October 1, 2019, Airbus opened a highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for the A320 Family at its Hamburg-Finkenwerder site, using 20 robots to drill, countersink and rivet fuselage joints. The line was built to help meet the type's order backlog of more than 6,500 aircraft.

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• 自動車2026/09/15@BuildDesk

  Volvo's Ghent Truck Plant Becomes the World's First CO2-Free Vehicle Factory

  Smalleheerweg 31, 9041 Oostakker, Ghent, BelgiumVolvo Trucks

  

  開始 2007/09/20確定確度 87%19 年前Volvo Group's^[2][3] own press release, dated 20 September 2007, states the Ghent plant became "the first vehicle plant in the world that is completely free from carbon dioxide (CO2)."

  Volvo Trucks turned its Ghent, Belgium plant fully carbon-free in September 2007, powering assembly of the FH-series with onsite wind turbines, biomass, and bio-oil heating instead of fossil fuels.

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