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6 unusual facts about Fisher Body


Fisher Body

McClelland Barclay used artwork showing fashionable women to promote the image of comfort and style.

Flint, Michigan auto industry

The plant opened on Chevrolet Avenue about 1913, comprising the Motor Division (engine-assembly and engine-parts plants) and the Pressed Metal Division (parts plants) and the pre-World War II Chevrolet Assembly (Plant Two) and Fisher Body #2 plants (later Chevrolet Plant 2A).

Inteva Products

Fisher Body, which had long since expanded its products beyond solely creating auto bodies, shipped its first latches in 1946.

In the following 30 years, four additional automotive suppliers, Inland Manufacturing Company, Fisher Body Company, Guide Lamp and Arvin Heater Company were born, creating the origins of Inteva’s four major product lines.

McClelland Barclay

His fashionable women for General Motors' "Body by Fisher" advertising campaign made his work recognizable to virtually every magazine reader in the United States.

Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Major donors to the construction of the seminary included prominent Detroit families such as the Fishers, Crowleys and Van Antwerps.



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Keith O'Conner Murphy

When he was a sophomore, the family moved to Sweetser, Indiana in Grant County, where his father worked at the local Fisher Body plant.