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  Fisher Heritage Page
In the early years of the company, the Fisher Brothers had to develop new body designs because the "horseless carriage" bodies did not have the strength to withstand the vibrations of the new motorcars.
Part of the reason for their success was the development of interchangeable wooden body parts that did not have to be hand-fitted, as was the case in the construction of carriages.
Because of Fisher Corporation's experience in the metal stamping and long association as a GM supplier, they were given the opportunity to bid on a portion of that requirement.
www.fisherdynamics.com /heritage/heritage.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Fisher Body - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder now part of General Motors.
Fisher was dissolved by being merged with other GM operations in 1984.
The General Motors "Body by Fisher" advertising campaigns were legendary and brought many artists to the attention of the American public.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fisher_Body   (780 words)

  
 Fisher now believed dead
Police found the bodies of his wife and children in the rubble with their throats slashed and determined that the killer rigged the home to explode.
They refused to call Fisher a criminal suspect until three days later, even after the bodies of his wife and children were found with their throats slashed and the gas line to the furnace was disconnected.
Fisher, a cardiac-lab technician at the Scottsdale Mayo Clinic, was an ardent outdoorsman and hunter who was familiar with the backwoods.
www.azcentral.com /specials/special22/articles/0626fisher26.html   (1138 words)

  
 CRG Research Report - Camaro Assembly Process
Fisher Body built the body shell from the firewall back, and shipped it through a hole in their common wall to the Chevrolet plant, fully painted and trimmed, including the interior, minus the instrument panel, dash and floor-mounted components, and front carpets.
Body Bank: Receives the body shell from Fisher, assigns VIN and stamps the hidden VINs, separates them by major Chevrolet equipment and option content, and schedules them in "locked" sequence to the Chevrolet Trim Line; specs for each car are "broadcast" to subassembly and feeder lines throughout the plant.
All the body side components were loaded outside-first, in car position, and welded sequentially as the conveyor moved along, including the outer rocker, outer quarter, wheelhouse and quarter inner, front body hinge pillar, roof rails, rocker inner, and miscellaneous brackets and reinforcements depending on the body style.
www.camaros.org /assemblyprocess.shtml   (5315 words)

  
 A short history of the "F" platform.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fisher Body was founded in 1909 by Fred J. Fisher and Charles T. Fisher and their uncle, Albert Fisher.
Since the early Corvette bodies were virtually handmade, they did not carry standard Fisher Body ID or Style Numbers as did other GM cars, until 1956 when they became E-2934 For 1958 they were the "J" ID. Sometime they were given the "Y" body designation, but still in 1972 the VIN identified Corvette as "Z".
The Fisher Body Division of General Motors was disbanded in 1984 and all that remains today is that little letter in the VIN....
www.geocities.com /wastespace/fisherbody.html   (488 words)

  
 FISHER WINERY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Each vintage in the Fisher double magnum series is etched and hand-painted with a Fisher Body Co. ad from the 1920s or a Fisher-GM ad from the 1930s.
Fisher, a graduate of Princeton with an MBA from Harvard, was part of the manufacturing staff at Cadillac in 1959 and 1960.
Fisher Vineyards' first vintage was produced in 1979, but it wasn't until 1984 that he and Juelle, whom he married in 1975, decided to put the familiar Napoleonic coach, the Fisher Body insignia, on the vineyards' chardonnay and cabernet labels.
www.carterhouse.com /atlas/wineries/fisher.html   (962 words)

  
 Body Contouring, Liposuction, and Tummy Tuck from San Antonio Plastic Surgery Center
Also known as a full body lift, this procedure may also be used to tighten sagging thighs and lift the buttocks.
In addition, Dr. Fisher can perform tumescent liposuction, in which a fluid is injected into the treatment area that decreases the loss of blood and increases the amount of fat that can be removed.
Fisher has had extensive training in a number of plastic surgery procedures, as well as a unique hand surgery fellowship at both the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the St. Vincent's Medical Center.
www.pfisherbodycontouring.com /html/body.html   (1146 words)

  
 UAW Local 602 Online! - Doug Rademacher, President/Steve Bramos, Shop Chair - Local 602 History
Fisher branch officers and members told Washburn, "they would run their own affairs." Washburn and Vice President Feldspausch were kicked out of a Fisher branch meeting and told to stay away from all future meetings.
Fisher Body was an open shop and committeepersons continued to collect union dues of one dollar per month from each member.
The 1984 local agreement saw the removal of the wagons as Lansing Fisher Body was the last plant in GM to lose the wagon as a form of relief.
www.local602.org /history.htm   (7137 words)

  
 Coachbult.com - Fisher Body Company
In 1916 Fisher merged its two U.S. companies and its Canadian operations, and the Fisher Body Corp. was incorporated in New York, with a stock authorization of $6 million.
In 1919, the Fishers sold 60 percent interest in the corporation to General Motors and were in turn contracted to provide bodies for all GM vehicles.
Fisher Body Plant contributed to the military effort during World War II by ceasing automobile production and building both the 90mm army anti-aircraft gun and the five inch navy gun mount.
www.coachbuilt.com /bui/f/fisher/fisher.htm   (3365 words)

  
 CRG Research Report - Fisher Body Numbers
The meanings and patterns of Fisher Body Numbers stamped on the body cowl tags of first-generation Camaros are fully decoded for all three years and assembly plants.
The body numbering patterns at the 1967 Van Nuys factory (and related 1968 Van Nuys patterns) were deduced from CRG data by the Camaro Research Group, and these have never before been presented.
Comparison of body data and correlation of this with window stickers and other background data shows that the 1969 system used a central office order confirmation number as the body number.
www.camaros.org /bodynumbering.shtml   (880 words)

  
 MUSCLE CAR RANCH        History
Fisher Body celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 1983, a commemorative newspaper was published called "Fisher Body Craftsman." In it appeared news stories that were re-created by combining numerous newspaper articles of yesteryear accumulated in the Fisher Body Public Relations files.
Fisher Body, with its headquarters in Warren, has always played a key role in GM operations because it holds responsibility for the engineering and car body components for all GM models except one-- the Chevrolet Corvette.
Fisher Body is typical of the automobile operations on this country which rode the roller coaster of the 70's that included such obstacles as:
www.musclecarranch.com /bodybyfisherhistory.htm   (1838 words)

  
 THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHER'S GHOST BY ANDREW LANG
A native tracker was taken to the fence where the pseudo Fisher sat, discovered 'white man's blood' on it, detected 'white man's fat' on the scum of a pool hard by, and, finally, found 'white man's body' buried in a brake.
The search for Fisher's body starts, it will be seen, from a spot on Fisher's paddock-fence, and the witness gives no reason why that spot was inspected, or rather no account of how, or by whom, sprinkled blood was detected on the rail.
A receipt to Worrall from Fisher was sworn to by Lewis Solomon as a forgery.
simplyaustralia.net /issue6/fishers_ghost.html   (3239 words)

  
 Hall portrait: Fisher, Winter 2005-06, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame
The $750,000 it took to build the hall was donated in 1949 by Fisher's wife, Sally, in memory of Fred, who had died in 1941.
Fisher was only the second dorm on campus to have a social lounge.
The Fisher Roofsit, begun in 2002 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the hall, features Fishermen and representatives of other halls sitting on the roof for 50 hours straight to raise money for charitable causes.
www.nd.edu /~ndmag/w0506/fisher.html   (792 words)

  
 Fisher Body Date Plate
The 1962 Fisher Body Data Plate is located under the hood, below the left (driver's side) windshield wiper transmission on Dynamic 88, Super 88, Ninety-Eight and Starfire models.
All Fisher Body numbers are prefixed by letters indicating the plant at which the body was assembled.
The Fisher Body plant code should correspond to the Oldsmobile final assembly plant indicated in the Vehicle Identification Number.
mywebpages.comcast.net /oldsfan/MySite/62fbpd.html   (912 words)

  
 Fisher Body 21
Fisher Body 21 was the birthplace for the bodies of countless Cadillacs.
Closed since the early-90's Fisher Body 21 has joined the list of forlorn symbols of industry.
Recent proposals to convert the building in to a data farm have fizzled and thus Fisher faces an uncertain future.
www.forgottendetroit.com /fisher   (85 words)

  
 M. F. K. Fisher
In her autobiography of those years, Among Friends, Fisher writes "The white children I knew when I was little had no need to be anything but well fed and secure in the best houses in town where they belonged to the best families….
This was the first of three marriages, the beginning of a life of travel between homes in France and California, the raising of two daughters on her own, and a final settlement in Northern California, where she could be "near the vineyards" and continue her career as a writer despite growing physical limitations.
Fisher's body of work stands as a record of life as it was lived in the United States and France during the twentieth century.
www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/mfkfisher.html   (1062 words)

  
 Fisher 21 & Detroit at night - a photoset on Flickr
Fisher soon became the industry standard and as orders came in from Detroit's auto manufacturers, Fisher expanded.
Fisher Body 21, measuring 200 feet by 581 feet only accounted for 536,000 square feet of this total.
Fisher Body 21 was built to house a body assembly plant.
www.flickr.com /photos/toybreaker/sets/1524483   (280 words)

  
 The Oakland Press: Auto/Business: GM closing old Fisher Body
Thursday, February 26, 2004
The move should be completed by the second quarter of 2005, and the prototypes and other material now stored in the old Fisher Body plant shifted to Warren, according the timetable laid out in January when GM gave final approval to the consolidation of the engineering related functions at the refurbished tech center in Warren.
The red-brick Fisher Body plant was originally built in the early 1920s during an era of rapid growth when GM was racing to overtake the Ford Motor Co. as the top automobile company in the world.
It supplied car bodies to an adjacent Pontiac assembly plant for nearly 60 years before GM replaced the old twinned assembly plants with a new assembly plant in Orion Township in the early 1980s.
www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/022604/bus_20040226029.shtml   (703 words)

  
 Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fisher is also the name of a line of sailboats built by Northshore Yachts Limited.
Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland.
Fisher, Alaska, Volcano on the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fisher   (198 words)

  
 1966 Chevelle Fisher Body Plate/VIN ~ ChevelleStuff.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are also numerous examples of odd numbered series on the body plate (e.g., 13569 in 1971) indicating that not ALL Fisher Body plates used even numbered series indications.
In 1966 and 1967 only, the SS also had its own body style designation (model) for the 2-door sport coupe and can be identified on the body plate and VIN with model number "17" in the model designation as opposed to 64/65 and 68/72 which used model "37" to denote the 2-door sport coupe.
The difference is the last six numbers relating to the the assembly plant sequence as opposed to the trim tag's Fisher Body unit number..
www.chevellestuff.com /66velle/trim_tag_decoding.htm   (1133 words)

  
 index
Although the Fisher Body Division of General Motors was disbanded as 1984 came to an end, there still remains a surprising amount of interest in the role it played in automotive history.
Photographs of Fisher Body operations dating back to its earliest years.
Fisher Body assembled this fleet of unusual vehicles back in the 1930's.
www.geocities.com /sponcom26/index.html   (258 words)

  
 Fisher Body Company
The Fishers intended to build an entirely enclosed auto body that would protect drivers and passengers from the elements.
Five years later, the company was producing three times that number of bodies and earning more than one million dollars in profits.
Due to the Fisher Company's success, in 1919 General Motors purchased a three-fifths interest in the company, uniting the two firms together.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=892   (441 words)

  
 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild - An Illustrated History
The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild was a national auto design competition sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors.
This competition was for teenagers to compete for college scholarships by designing and building both scale model Napoleonic coaches, that depicted the Fisher Body logo, and scale model "dream" cars.
This richly illustrated book presents the history of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, from its inception by the Fisher family as a philanthropic project during the Great Depression, to its expansion overseas, and finally to its end in 1968.
fisherguild.com /final_tester.htm   (310 words)

  
 Door to Quarter Panel Spacing According To Fisher Body - Team Camaro Tech
According to the Fisher Body Assembly manual the door gap or spacing is said to be 3/16 plus 1/32 minus 1/16.
The fixture supported the door, was positioned to the body, the hinge-to-pillar bolts were shot, and the fixture was removed (one every 52 seconds).
Doors were hung in the Body Shop with the rear top edge kicked-up about 3/16" high to the matching peak on the quarter to compensate for the weight of door glass, trim and hardware that would be added later in the Trim Shop.
www.camaros.net /forums/showthread.php?t=9018   (280 words)

  
 Fisher Body
The Fisher Body Craftsman Guild—sponsored by Fisher Body Division of General Motors under the direction of Harley Earl.
This program was presented to high school seniors, tasking their skills to design the look of the future.
This gave Fisher Body an insight of what the coming generation wanted to see.
www.carofthecentury.com /fisher_body.htm   (128 words)

  
 Friends & Associates - Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild
FBCG Friends and Associates was formed to write this book about the history, the memorabilia and people of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild.
The purpose is to inform and educate the community about the accomplishments of this long forgotten high school industrial arts program from the 1930's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.
Fisher Body Coach and accessories may be donated to the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild Foundation and Museum.
www.fisherguild.com /friends.htm   (426 words)

  
 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild - THE H.A.M.B.
I was reminded of Fisher body when I pulled the sill plates off the Corvair I parted out.
The 'airplane' one in gray primer is in the process of being restored (it will be finished in its original candy burgandy with white leather interior) and the others are awiting restoration in various states of decay.
John Jacobis, author of the new book on the Fisher Body Guild has done a few seminars in the past few months on the guild at the Maryland Automotive Modelers association meetings.
www.jalopyjournal.com /forum/showthread.php?t=68917   (1509 words)

  
 Book Overview - Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This book describes the history, memorabilia and people of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild (1930-1968) which consisted, initially, of contestants constructing miniature model Napoleonic Coaches (1/18 scale) from 1930 to 1948, and then 1/12 scale, futuristic model "dream cars" from 1937 to 1968.
It was begun by the Fisher family as a philanthropic project during the Great Depression, but evolved into a successful talent search and recruiting tool for General Motors Corporation.
As a tribute to the legacy of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, Automobile Quarterly magazine sponsored three Car Styling Contests (rendering/drawing contests), at various times in the late 80's and early 90's, for aspiring student and adult auto designers with the results being judged by leading industry design executives.
www.fisherguild.com.cob-web.org:8888 /overview.htm   (873 words)

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