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This belief of U.S. officials made a sad man, a man with cool heels, of an engineer named Alex Taub. A British-American, a Chevrolet man who went to work for Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (the General Motors in Britain), Mr. Taub returned to the U.S. last December with a mission and three specimens of a whang-dinging good British aircraft engine. The mission: to persuade the U.S. to manufacture the engines in quantity. The engine: Napier's 24-cylinder, 50-horsepower, inline, liquid-cooled Sabre (TIME...
...output of Pratt & Whitney and Wright is about 2,900 engines (2,850,000 horsepower) a month. The supply will be stepped up more than 2 for 1 after Ford, Buick and Studebaker come into production late this fall with their air-cooled engine plants, will jump again when Chevrolet starts producing radials by the fall of 1942. Allison, with production-slowing difficulties now apparently licked, has big production in sight, hopes to catch up with plane production by fall...
Died. Louis Chevrolet, 62, the oldtime racing driver the car is named for; in Detroit. Backed by W. C. Durant, he started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...
...Because U. A. W. officials claimed that management had violated provisions of the grievance procedures, workers voted to strike at the Chevrolet factory in Flint, Mich...
...Idle? Walter Reuther's statement that the booming automobile industry had any idle capacity or labor was news to most people. Planner Reuther cited three empty factories in Detroit with 554,000 square feet of idle space. He named companies (Fisher Body, Chevrolet, Ternstedt) which had recently laid off skilled workers or put them at unskilled labor, declared that not more than half the industry's total capacity was actually at work. He also assumed that individual auto-makers would have to be compelled to pool their resources and talents, perhaps delay their own new models while...