Devlieg Plant Location

i think there is some interest in seeing the old DEVLIEG plant. It’s located in Royal Oak Michigan. Within the property is FAIR Street.
I worked there doing outside maintenance work when I was 14 years old. When I walked through the plant 50 years ago, I saw these huge behemoths and had no idea what they were. Now I own and operate a 2B-36. Funny how life turns.

Thanks for posting that photo. As an ex-Detroiter, I've always wondered where the former DeVlieg plant was located (Fair St. doesn't show on the Royal Oak maps, and the Fair St. in Ferndale isn't the right one).

Interesting that the facility is now occupied by Comau, the automation subsidiary of Stellantis.

I have a 1953 brochure listing the address as 450 Fair Avenue, Ferndale Detroit 20, Michigan. In a 1956 brochure the address has changed to Fair Street, Royal Oak, Michigan. A large building shows up on goog maps at 450 Fair Avenue in Ferndale.

Are they still in action?

Long gone.

Bourn and koche owns the rights. Supposedly they have built 1or 2 new ones.

I can't see how it's possible to build one or two "NEW" ones, as in a a NEW Devlieg jigMil. It may be one thing to have the drawings, it's another entirely different realm to have the casting patterns. But making a one or two off machinery run, with literally thousands of parts- just can't be done without the new machine costing millions of dollars. Now grabbing an existing machine and rebuilding it to new tolerances is doable. I can't imagine there's many foundries left in America that could pour the columns and bases for these machines. I THINK the last ones made they had gone to metal fabs rather than castings.

I have an entire library of Devlieg manuals and advertising brochures. One of the more impressive machine tool builders, from when America really WAS great!

Can confirm Brian’s comment. I was in B&K plant a few years ago and saw fabrications being machined for 4K sized machines (and I think a bigger size). They also had a fair stock of old machines waiting their turn for rebuilding. Same for larger Blanchards.