Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
Based on the layout of the place, I can see why Studebaker abandoned it. It had a truly horrible layout for an assembly line. The building was a big doughnut with multiple floors connected by freight elevators. Handling and rehandling must have been brutal..
Some old factories I've seen had conveyors running through floors and ceilings. The multi-floor method of factory layout became obsolete and there simply wasn't any way to make a 2 million ft^2 single-story factory where the old 2 million ft^2 five-story factory was. Hello, farmland.