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Duke greets war veteran employees, Keen interest in the way military motorized equipment is manufacured was shown today by the Duke of Kent when he visited the General Motors plant at Oshawa today
Duke greets war veteran employees, Keen interest in the way military motorized equipment is manufacured was shown today by the Duke of Kent when he visited the General Motors plant at Oshawa today

Duke greets war veteran employees, Keen interest in the way military motorized equipment is manufacured was shown today by the Duke of Kent when he visited the General Motors plant at Oshawa today

Date8/23/1941
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Original Toronto Star caption: Duke greets war veteran employees; Keen interest in the way military motorized equipment is manufacured was shown today by the Duke of Kent when he visited the General Motors plant at Oshawa today.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0124062F
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A worker at the John Inglis plant, which the Duke of Kent visited Thursday, finds himself quite at ease as he chats with the royal visitor
8/22/1941
Once upon a time, when portrait in background was painted, he was Count of Czachi, but today he is just plain George Czachi, a $4.49-an-hour assembly line inspector and member of United Auto Worker union at General Motors. In his native Hungary, he lived in a castle, and his family owned its own factory.
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2/1/1972
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8/21/1941
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8/9/1927
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3/5/1941
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7/7/1988
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10/23/1970
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It's a long walk along the slowly-moving assembly line at the Oshawa South plant of General Motors, where the vast, linked buildings cover 165 acres. (...)
1/12/1973
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William A. Wecker, General Motors of Canada president, points to an aerial photo of the new Oshawa plant which will step up production to 1,350 vehicles a day
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There's still coffee money left, and pickets outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa take time out for coffee and doughnuts. But strike funds for 2(...)
There's still coffee money left, and pickets outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa take time out for coffee and doughnuts. But strike funds for 2(...)
10/23/1970