Inside The Budd Plant Video with a Former Employee
- Liberty Belle
- Jul 8, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 8, 2023
A History of Innovation and Excellence in Philadelphia. The Budd Company Shaped Philadelphia's Industrial and Cultural Landscape, from Railcars to Spacecraft.
For nearly a century, the Budd Plant in North Philadelphia stood as a beacon of Philly's manufacturing power. Now, like so many other Philadelphia factories, it is abandoned.
Documentary, film maker Samuel George visited the plant with former Union Leader Mark Klimo. This is extended archival footage and conversation from that visit.
The Budd Company was a metal fabricator and a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry, founded in 1912 in Philadelphia by Edward G. Budd.
The company invented the first all-steel automobile bodies in 1913 and the "shot weld" technique for joining pieces of stainless steel in the 1930s.
The company also manufactured passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products. The company filed for bankruptcy no longer operates.
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I remember going there with my uncle who worked there, back in the early sixties. It looked nothing like it does in this video... so sad.