Fisher Body

Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder now part of General Motors. The company was founded on July 22, 1908 by Albert, Fred, and Charles Fisher of Detroit, Michigan. Their company became one of the top coachbuilders in the United States, building their signature factory, Fisher Body 21, in 1919. At the time, the company had more than 40 buildings housing 3,700,000 square feet (344,000 m²) of floor space.

Fisher milestones:

• 1930 - Slanted windshields for reduced glare
• 1933 - "No-Draft" ventilation
• 1934 - One-piece steel "turret top" roofs
• 1935 - Former Durant Motors plant in Lansing, Michigan opens
• 1936 - Dual windshield wipers
• 1969 - Fisher's "Side Guard Beam" is introduced
• 1974 - Invented the ignition interlock system
• 1974 - Produced GM's first airbag
• 1975 - Fisher develops GM's first all-metric vehicle, the Chevrolet Chevette
• 1983 - Fisher Body and Buick division's Flint, Michigan operations are combined as Buick City
• 1984 - The Lansing factory is melded with Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac to become Lansing Car Assembly