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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2009.027.002.024 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[Budd Canada factory, men's locker/break room] |
Description |
Colour photograph. Three unidentified men seated at a table; one unidentified man standing. Two of the men are wearing baseball caps, one a wool cap, and the fourth is bareheaded. The man without a hat is wearing blue overalls. Two older style, white refrigerators behind them. Cement block wall painted green with shelving on it. Tree branch in the upper right corner decorated with red dots and silver garland. Date stamped in the lower right corner "94/12/15". Printed on the reverse in a repeating pattern "Kodak/Official Sponsor of the Olympic Games" with the Olympic rings below. No photographer's mark. Man in the lower left corner has been identified as Billy Conn; man in the lower right corner as Gordie Gilmore. |
Date |
1994 |
Copyright |
Waterloo Region Museum |
History |
The Budd Company was founded in 1912 by Edward G. Budd. The headquarters were in Troy, Michigan. The company was a metal fabricator and major supplier of body components for the auto industry. The company used the unibody method of automobile construction, meaning that the body is integrated into a single unit with the chassis. In 1965, the Canada-United States Automotive Agreement (Auto Pact) was signed. It required that for every car sold here, one had to be made here. It also required that every Canadian-made car had to have 60% Canadian content in parts and labour. American car part manufacturer Budd opened a Canadian plant in Kitchener in 1967, named Budd Canada. Thyssen took over the Budd Company in 1978. In 1996, Budd Canada was renamed Thyssen Budd Canada. In 2006, Martinrea International bought the Kitchener plant, and renamed it Kitchener Frame. The Kitchener plant was closed in December 2008 with the last frame completed on December 2. The Canadian Region of the United Auto Workers was founded in 1937. Canadian auto workers continued to be members of the UAW until 1985, when the Canadian Auto Workers union was formed. |
Search Terms |
Budd Canada |
People |
Conn, Billy Gilmore, Gordie |