Packard Conner Plant (Detroit, Michigan)

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Originally built by Briggs in 1940 for aircraft work, it became an automotive body plant after WWII. It was used by Briggs to produce bodies for Packard.
Briggs was sold to Chrysler in 1953, and Chrysler built the 1954 Packard bodies, basically keeping that plant doing what it did before the Briggs sale. Packard leased the 759,749 sq. ft., facility from Chrysler in the fall of 1954, tore up their assembly line at East Grand Boulevard and moved it to Conner. The new V-8 engines and Ultramatic transmissions were made in Utica at the plant on Mound and 23 mile, shipped to Conner for assembly into the chassis. Packard stamped, fabricated and painted the bodies then final assembled the 1955-'56 cars in this plant. It was torn down in the summer of 1959 by Chrysler after Studebaker-Packard's lease ran out.