The Toledo Complex is an automobile factory in Toledo, Ohio. This article is about the city in Ohio, USA. For Toledo Spain, see that article It is currently owned by Chrysler, but has been in operation as an automobile assembly plant since 1910, originally for Willys-Overland vehicles, and is the site for Jeep assembly since the 1940s. Chrysler LLC is an American Automobile manufacturer that has been producing Automobiles since 1925 Jeep is an Automobile Marque (and registered trademark of Chrysler. It comprises two factories: Toledo North and Toledo South.
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Toledo South
The Toledo South Assembly Plant is the original Jeep CJ assembly factory. The Jeep CJ (or Civilian Jeep) was a commercial version of the famous Military Jeep from World War II. It is currently being rebuilt to construct the new JK Wrangler for Jeep, starting on August 28, 2006. The Wrangler (also known as the YJ, TJ, and JK, as explained below is an Off-road vehicle produced by American automaker It consists of two units, the Stickney Plant at 4000 Stickney Ave, and the Parkway Annex at 1000 Jeep Parkway. The Parkway site will no longer be used starting with the 2007 Wrangler. The Stickney site is the first North American operation to have three major assembly plant facilities (Body Shop, Paint Shop and Chassis Assembly) to be owned and operated by suppliers.
Stickney
The Stickney Plant was opened in 1942 by Autolite and sold to Kaiser-Jeep in 1964. Honeywell ( is a major American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products engineering services and aerospace systems Kaiser Jeep was the result of the merger between the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, an independent Automaker based in Willow Run, Michigan, and the It was used as a machining and engine plant until 1981 when it was converted for vehicle production. It began producing the Jeep Grand Wagoneer that year through 1991 when final assembly of the Wrangler was moved there. The Jeep Wagoneer was an early Sport utility vehicle (SUV produced under varying Marques from 1963 to 1991
Parkway
The Parkway Annex was opened in 1904 as a bicycle factory. Its use as an automobile assembly plant dates from 1910, when it was purchased by Willys-Overland. Willys was the brand name used by the United States Automobile company Willys-Overland Motors best known for its production of military and civilian The plant began producing the Jeep in the 1940s and was renamed the Toledo Assembly Plant when Chrysler purchased American Motors in 1987. American Motors Corporation (AMC was an American automobile company formed on January 14 1954 by the merger of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Basic assembly and painting of the Wrangler body was done at the Parkway plant through 2006, when it was closed. At that time, it was the oldest operating automotive assembly plant in the United States.
The Parkway plant includes landmark smokestacks spelling out "Overland" in bricks. It was home to military Jeep production as well as the Jeep museum. One third of the plant was demolished in 2002, including the former museum, and the remainder is being demolished. Two of the three "Overland" smokestacks, a Toledo landmark since 1915, were demolished on June 18, 2007. The future of the remaining stack, left alone by DaimlerChrysler, is subject to the development plans of a future owner; the site is currently for sale. [1]
Toledo North
The Toledo North Assembly Plant was opened in 2001 building the unibody Jeep Liberty. Monocoque, from the French for single ( mono) and shell ( coque) is a construction technique that supports structural load by using an object's external The Jeep Liberty (KJ/KK or Jeep Cherokee (KJ/KK outside North America is a Compact SUV produced by the Jeep marque of Chrysler. The 2. 14-million-square-foot (199,000 m2) plant sits on 200 acres (81 ha) at 4400 Chrysler Drive and construction began in 1997. The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, [2] Starting in 2006, then owner DaimlerChrysler invested $600,000,000 to retool the plant to build the Dodge Nitro. Daimler AG ( (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German car corporation (not to be confused with the British car-maker Daimler Motor Company) and The Dodge Nitro is a Compact SUV from the Dodge division of Chrysler LLC. The plant employees 3,408 workers. [2]
A third Chrysler plant is located in nearby Perrysburg, Ohio. Perrysburg is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States, along the Maumee River. The Toledo Machining Plant opened in 1967 and is located at 8000 Chrysler Drive. This plant was owned and operated by Chrysler before the acquisition of Jeep by Chrysler.
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