Fleetwood history

An article in the Reading Eagle dated May 10, 1959 reported on the opening of the “East Penn Branch” of the Reading Railroad system which occurred 100 years earlier.

May 31, 1961 Fleetwood Community Pool opened.

Having shifted headquarters from Compton to Paramount to Anaheim during its early years, the firm found more lasting roots in Riverside, California, in 1962.

After a five year absence the Brougham name once again reappeared as an option package on the 1965 Cadillac Sixty Special.

1969 Fleetwood enters the motor home market through acquisition of Selgran, which is renamed Pace Arrow.

Starting in 1971 the Sixty Special was only available as the well equipped Fleetwood Sixty Special Brougham.

1972 Pennsylvania Dutch Cookie Corp. is established.

In 1973, the area around the old railway station was developed into a container port facility.

The company is subject to provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

The company rounded out its product line with the acquisition, for cash, of Avion Coach Corporation in 1976.

Fleetwood Mac, British blues band that evolved into the hugely popular Anglo-American pop-rock group whose 1977 album Rumours was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.

Following the idiosyncratic Tusk (1979), group members began pursuing solo careers.

In 1980 Fleetwood shut down nine of its production factories: three travel trailer plants, three motor home facilities, and three manufactured housing plants.

A group of executives at Fleetwood led by Glenn F. Kum-mer, the firm's president and chief operating officer since 1982, pushed for a major expansion into mobile-home retailing, but Crean disagreed, arguing that such a move would backfire by angering the firm's remaining independent distributors.

Fleetwood Credit Corporation (FCC) was established in 1986.

The four-year-old dispute came to a head in February 1988, resulting in a United States Justice Department complaint filed against Fleetwood in Wilmington, Delaware, seeking civil penalties in excess of $20 million.

In fact, the firm achieved $1 billion in RV sales in 1989.

By 1990 the company operated 12 travel trailer plants in the United States and Canada.

October 15, 1991 FLEETWOOD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FORMED.

In September 1992 Fleetwood acquired an 80 percent interest in Niesmann & Bischoff, a Koblenz, Germany-based manufacturer of luxury-priced ($150,000 to $300,000) motor homes under the brands Clou Liner and Clou Trend.

It opened to the public in 1995.

In May 1996 Fleet-wood gave up on its European adventure, selling its stake in Niesmann & Bischoff and taking a $28 million charge for fiscal 1996 in the process.

The firm created 49 Fleetwood Home Centers, retail centers selling Fleetwood homes, in 1997.

Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Revenues climbed steadily, reaching $3.71 billion by the fiscal year ending in April 2000.

"Fleetwood Lowered to Sell." Business Week, 1 March 2001.

Kurowski, Jeff. "New Fleetwood Management Faces Job of Fixing a Giant." RV Business, January 2002.

The 2003 release Say You Will brought together Fleetwood, John McVie, Buckingham, and Nicks for their first studio album in 16 years, but the absence of Christine McVie highlighted her importance as a mediating influence within the band.

Twice-daily container service continued until 2004 when Stena Line bought the route and increased the service to three times a day.

By August 2005 he had sold substantially all of the firm's manufactured housing retail operations and its entire loan portfolio to affiliates of Clayton Homes, Inc.

Annex NYC, a branch of the museum that focused on New York City’s contributions to rock culture, opened in Manhattan in November 2008 but closed a little more than a year later, when its financial viability was undermined by the struggling United States economy of the time.

In 2009 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s 25th anniversary was celebrated with a two-day concert event in New York that featured some of rock’s biggest names.

In 2012 major works were completed to the line and it reopened with much celebration as a light railway with new trams.

A new album, much discussed, failed to materialize, though Buckingham and Christine McVie released Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie in 2017.

June 8, 2018, London), Christine McVie (original name Christine Perfect; b.