Plant
owned factory
Kalamazoo, MI, USAno source. Built for 1 brand on record.
Beside the Gibson factory at 224 Parsons. conflict:K012 end 1969 vs 1970
More: every plant in the USA, the Epiphone lineage.
The point marks Kalamazoo, MI, USA at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded placeno source.
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.
| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1957–1969 | Chicago Musical Instrument Co. (CMI) | community[1] |
| 1969–1970 | Norlin Corporation (ECL) | community[3] |
| Years | Brand | Line | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957–1969 | Epiphone | Epiphone Kalamazoo | full build | community[1, 2] |
| 1957–1970 | Epiphone | Epiphone Kalamazoo | full build | disputed[3, 2] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957–1969[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2] | Epiphone Kalamazoo | Chicago Musical Instrument Co. (CMI) | — |
No supply records for this plant yet.
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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