Word: borg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laid off 9,000 of their 12,200 workers at Willow Run, where the C-119 Boxcars were made on license from Fairchild Engine & Aircraft, their original designer. Auto production (250 cars a day) had already been halted in the plant a few days earlier, when a strike at Borg-Warner shut off K-F's supply of automatic transmissions and forced a layoff 'of 2,200 men. At week's end, there were only 1,000 K-F workers left, finishing up the last Boxcars and making auto parts for other manufacturers...
Fully Automatic. The Chrysler Corp. announced that fully automatic transmissions will be standard equipment on all new Chrysler Imperials and Crown Imperials. Similar to the Borg-Warner type used by Ford, the new transmission will probably be used later on Dodge, De Soto and Plymouth cars. Price as optional equipment: approximately...
...SIGNE BORG Seattle...
...shift to automatic transmissions, automen have added a shoal of new words to the language. Most of them, as might be expected, end in "matic" (e.g., Hydra-Matic, Gyro-Matic, Ultramatic). Last week the Ford Motor Co. announced a new automatic transmission of its own, developed with Borg-Warner Corp. for the 1951 Mercurys. Its name: "Merc-O-Matic." In a few months the company will bring out a new transmission, optional on all 1951 Fords. The name, to nobody's great surprise: "Ford-O-Matic...
...committee consisted of Kenneth F. Borg '50, chairman William R. Polk '51, Donald Blackmer '52 J. Cooper Blankenship '51, and Frank H. Wood...