Assembling Memories
“A New Route for Boeing’s Latest Model” [Nov. 19] stirred the souls of some of us older Los Angeles residents.
Near Boeing’s 717 plant in Long Beach is the building where some 10,000 C-47s (the military’s DC-3s) were built during World War II using the moving assembly-line concept. (I believe the tracks are still there in the floor of the old Douglas assembly building.)
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Nov. 29, 2000 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday November 29, 2000 Home Edition Business Part C Page 3 Financial Desk 1 inches; 22 words Type of Material: Correction
Letter’s author--The name of writer Morgan M. Blair of Lomita was inadvertently omitted from a letter Sunday about Boeing’s 717 assembly line in Long Beach.
This production method certainly has been proved to substantially reduce costs for high-rate production. For those few companies that used this during the war, it not only “churned them out in a hurry” but produced a higher quality airplane at a much lower cost.
MORGAN M. BLAIR
Lomita
