General Motors Diesel

General Motors Diesel
Formerly	Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada, Ltd.;
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	1949
Defunct	2012
Headquarters	London, Ontario, Canada
Products	Diesel locomotives
Parent	Electro-Motive Diesel ; (1949–1969); GM Canada; (1969–2005); Progress Rail; (2005–2012);

General Motors Diesel was a railway diesel locomotive manufacturer located in London, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1949 as the Canadian subsidiary of the Electro-Motive Diesel division of General Motors (EMD). In 1969 it was re-organized as the "Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada, Ltd." The plant was re-purposed to include manufacture of other diesel-powered General Motors vehicles such as buses. Following the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1989, all of EMD's locomotives were built at the London facility. In 2005 new owners of EMD renamed the Canadian subsidiary "Electro-Motive Canada". The plant was closed by EMD's new owner Progress Rail in 2012, with EMD's production remaining in LaGrange, Illinois and Muncie, Indiana.

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