Word: autocar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million last year) on lower sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar slipped badly and Reo Motors drove into...
However, a few industries were already feeling the effects of competition and the buyers' market. With the backlog in trucks about gone, profits fell for such smaller producers as Mack Trucks (down 50%) and Autocar (down 90%). Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's half-year profits dropped more than 50%. Bendix Home Appliances also felt a sag in sales, reporting a profit of $900,550 for the second quarter v. $2,565,-208 for the corresponding period last year. Profits of shoe companies were down; International Shoe...
...trucks. Now he has enough orders to run full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have 2½-ft.-wide fenders and an engine weighing more than an ordinary 1½-ton truck...
Though competitors, three truck manufacturers (White, Diamond T, Autocar) set up a joint purchasing committee to speed their work on 9,347 standardized Army trucks and scout cars. The committee first got subcontractors tooled up without duplicating facilities, now places bulk orders for all materials...
...Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...