Re: [Amc-list] Toxic Pit

[Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>]

Mike said:


>Anyone remember the name of that toxic pit of a foundry that AMC owned, I
>believe it was in Canada?


I put some stuff about it in the WikiPedia article on AMC.  From the article:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Motors#_note-19

At least one major AMC operation is now completely defunct:

    * Holmes Foundry, Ltd. - AMC's block casting facility located in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The plant was acquired by AMC in 1970, and was subsequently closed in 1988). Beginning in 1962, AMC contracted with Holmes Foundry[19] of Sarnia, Ontario, to supply AMC with cylinder block castings. Holmes was established in 1918, by Mr. J. S. Blunt, and was called Holmes Blunt Limited. In those early years, Ford Motor Company contracted the plant for a steady supply of engine casting blocks. American Motors acquired twenty-five percent interest in the foundry in January of 1966. In July of 1970, AMC acquired 100% of Holmes Foundry. However, it was not until October of 1981 that Holmes Foundry finally became a Division of American Motors, Canada. Chrysler Corporation took ownership of the Holmes facility and its manufacturing business in 1987 as part of its acquisition of AMC; but closed the operation on September 16, 1988. The industrial facilities were cleaned of their environmenta
 l con
taminants in 2005, in preparation for a new highway interchange to be built on the site.

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I did find some links to more stuff on Holmes.  These are also included in the main article:

http://www.angelfire.com/my/HolmesFoundry/
        Check out the photo of the plant!

http://www.caw.ca/whatwedo/health%26safety/holmesfoundry/review.asp#

-- Marc



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