Cambridge Assembly
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Cambridge Assembly was a Ford Motor Company factory in Cambridge, Massachusetts which opened in 1913. The factory had the first vertically integrated assembly line in the world.{{cite web|title=Building History- 640 Memorial Drive|url=http://www.640memorialdrive.com/property-history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501064237/http://www.640memorialdrive.com/property-history.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2011|access-date=22 December 2013}} It was replaced in 1926 by the Somerville Assembly.{{cite web|title=Squares and Neighborhoods - Assembly Square|url=http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/squares-and-neighborhoods/assembly-square|publisher=City of Somerville|access-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208185852/http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/squares-and-neighborhoods/assembly-square|archive-date=8 December 2013|url-status=dead}} The plant was later reused by Polaroid Corporation, and is now owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Category:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Category:Former motor vehicle assembly plants
Category:Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
Category:Motor vehicle assembly plants in Massachusetts
Category:Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings
Category:1913 establishments in Massachusetts
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