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...Percy Chrysler is from Kansas.* He was a shop helper; he became a mechanic, a superintendent, a general manager. When William Crapo Durant was first ousted from General Motors control (1911; again 1920) and Charles W. Nash (now chairman of Nash Motors) became General Motors president, Engineer Chrysler became Buick's general manager. He developed the steel body for Buicks; increased the output, cut production costs...
...owns, reputedly, a large block of Hupmobile shares. He controls, too, Durant Motors (Durant and Star cars), Locomobile Co. of America, and more than a year ago he formed Consolidated Motors, Inc. in Delaware, and advertised in 48 newspapers of 29 cities that "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the Keystone of the great General Motors," he intended to use the new Star Six for his new company. Financial writers jeered at Mr. Durant as a stockjobber (TIME, April...
...Buick 47-S 1495. Oakland...
...Buick 50 $1995. Nash...