Fisher Body - Fisher Milestones

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
• 1979 - Fisher Northern Ireland established, opens plant in Dundonald, Northern Ireland
• 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
• 1990 - Fisher closes Elyria, Ohio, facility
• 2008 - Fisher Coachworks, LLC officially launches and begins development of the GTB-40 transit bus