Saving 3,500 Chrysler jobs
Stacks of transmissions stand ready for shipment by truck to assembly plants in Detroit, Toledo and Ontario.
Chrysler's next generation, 8-speed automatic transmission will also be made here, using technology the company got from Daimler during that ill-fated merger.
Seventeen months ago, production at this factory and the three others in Kokomo ground to a halt when Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Without the federal auto bailout, many feel 3,500 workers in Kokomo would have lost their jobs.
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Last updated October 18 2010: 7:22 AM ET
