Norwood Assembly

The Norwood Assembly Plant in Norwood, Ohio a suburb of Cincinnati, US, built General Motors cars between the years of 1923 and 1987. When it first opened the plant employed 600 workers and could produce 200 cars per day. At its peak in the early 1970s it employed nearly 9,000.

The first car was manufactured on August 13, 1923, a Chevrolet Superior. Among the cars built at Norwood were the Chevrolet Bel Air, Biscayne, Impala, Nova, Caprice, Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, and the Buick Apollo. The plant grew to cover an area of approximately 50 acres (200,000 m²) and had 3,000,000 square feet (279,000 m²) of space under roof.

There were a number of labor disputes at the facility, including a 174-day-long strike in 1972, at the time the longest strike in GM history. As a result of the strike, 1,100 partially completed cars were scrapped or otherwise disposed of because it was not economically feasible to update them to the more stringent 1973 vehicle standards. After the strike GM moved Nova production away from Norwood to protect the model from future labor problems.