Oldsmobile and GM Lansing Historian

Biography: I started at Oldsmobile Division of GM in 1953 as a General Motors Institute student. After graduation, I began work in our Plant Layout Department. Our job was to determine the arrangement of the facilities in the plants in Lansing. I advanced through the Industrial Engineering Department and Manufacturing Engineering, retiring in 1986. I was a part of practically every facility change during that time. In 1987 Helen Earley and I founded the Oldsmobile History Center to manage our extensive historical collection about the People, the Plant and the Products of Oldsmobile. We co-authored three books using this and other material.

Location:
Lansing, MI

Articles written by James R. Walkinshaw:
From the Horse to Horsepower
Oldsmobile History Center, 1986-2004. Chapter 1
Oldsmobile History Center, 1986-2004. Chapter 2
Co-oping in the 1950s at GMI
Olds, Ransom Eli