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The North Tarrytown Assembly was an
automobile
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factory in
North Tarrytown, New York
Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States. The village is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, about north of New York City, and is served by the Philipse Manor stop on ...
now known as Sleepy Hollow, situated on the
Hudson River
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. The plant was in operation from 1896 to 1996. Originally opened by the
Stanley Steam Car Company
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Early history ...
, the plant was acquired by Maxwell-Briscoe in 1903 from the Ingersoll-Rand Drill Company. In 1913 Maxwell-Briscoe was renamed
Maxwell Automobile Company. Separate portions of the complex were acquired by
Chevrolet
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in 1914 and 1915. At this time Chevrolet was an independent company and not yet part of General Motors. In 1918 Chevrolet was integrated into General Motors.
A range of General Motors products were assembled in Tarrytown over the years; most were Chevrolet products, starting with the
Chevrolet Series 490
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. Its last vehicles produced were GM's second generation minivans. These were the
Chevrolet Lumina APV
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,
Pontiac TranSport, and
Oldsmobile Silhouette
The Oldsmobile Silhouette is a minivan manufactured by General Motors for model years 1990–2004 over two generations.
Production ended when General Motors discontinued its Oldsmobile brand in 2004. GM continued to market badge engineered va ...
, but sluggish sales spelled the end for GM's Tarrytown operations with its 2100 employees.
It was closed at the end of June 1996 when production of
minivan
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s was moved to
Doraville Assembly
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in
Georgia
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.
Lueck
p. B6 Metro-North Railroad
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's Hudson Line runs through the property, and some of the siding tracks that used to serve the factory have been taken over by Metro-North as overflow storage tracks for maintenance of way
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equipment.
The plant was a noted polluter of the Hudson River. The plant used about 1 million gallons of water per day, which was returned to the river as waste. The plant's industrial waste (primarily lead chromate
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and other painting, cleaning, and soldering chemicals) would be emptied directly into the river. Domestic waste would be processed through the village's sewage treatment plant. Around 1971, the village's Sewer and Water Superintendent assured that the pollution reports were exaggerated, and that he and other residents would swim by a beach nearby, however Dominick Pirone, an ecologist and former director of the Hudson River Fishermen's Association (now Riverkeeper
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) was quoted as saying: "You can tell what color cars they are painting on a given day by what color the river is."
The site today is now being developed, with the parcel west of the railroad becoming a mainly-residential Toll Brothers
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development named "Edge-on-Hudson" and the east parcel retained by the Village of Sleepy Hollow for a new Department of Public Works garage and other facilities for the public.
Models
Some of the models produced at the plant included:
*1915-1922 Chevrolet Series 490
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*1923-1926 Chevrolet Superior
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(introduction of GM "A" platform)
*1927 Chevrolet Series AA Capitol
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*1928 Chevrolet Series AB National
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*1929 Chevrolet Series AC International
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*1930 Chevrolet Series AD Universal
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*1931 Chevrolet Series AE Independence
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*1932 Chevrolet Series BA Confederate
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*1933 Chevrolet Eagle
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*1933-1942 Chevrolet Master
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*1941-1952 Chevrolet Deluxe
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*1953-1957 Chevrolet 150
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/Chevrolet 210
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/Chevrolet Fleetline
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/Chevrolet Townsman
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1953–1957
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*1980-1983 Buick Skylark
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*1980-1985 Chevrolet Citation
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*1980-1984 Pontiac Phoenix
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*1990-1996 Chevrolet Lumina APV
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*1990-1996 Pontiac Trans Sport
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Introduced a y ...
*1990-1996 Oldsmobile Silhouette
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Production ended when General Motors discontinued its Oldsmobile brand in 2004. GM continued to market badge engineered va ...
See also
* Pollution of the Hudson River
Between 1947 and 1977, General Electric polluted the Hudson River by discharging polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) causing a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river. Other kinds of pollution, including mercury co ...
References
General Motors factories
Former motor vehicle assembly plants
Motor vehicle assembly plants in New York (state)
Sleepy Hollow, New York
1896 establishments in New York (state)
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