Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Motors Corp., hardest hit, with 215,000 workers laid off and all production at a halt, was moving faster last week than even its own executives expected. G.M. expects to have all divisions operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing 40,000 cars a week, by about Dec. 16. The 13 Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will...
...more pep into the Ford line. Next month Ford will begin deliveries of a 360-h.p. engine that is topped among U.S. stock cars only by the 380 h.p. in the Chrysler 3OO-E. Ford's aim is to outdo both Plymouth (330-h.p. top) and Chevrolet (335-h.p. top) with its new engine...
...rules only hardtop sedans and coupes with engines no bigger than 3,500 cc. could enter, and all V-8s were excluded. Lined up at the start in ten classes were cars from the U.S., Britain, France. Germany and Sweden. The entries that held all eyes were the new Chevrolet Corvairs and Ford Falcons, both competing in the same class (2,001 to 2,500 cc.) and each with top drivers and pit crews. Chevy made it a major effort, with five cars and a 25-man pit crew sponsored by the Denver Chevrolet Dealers Association. Not to be outdone...
...Three's compact cars got off to a fast start. Wards Automotive Reports last week announced that compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October 1958. Of that big new share, Chevrolet's Corvair, Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant carved out a 48.1% slice to challenge American Motors and Studebaker-Packard. In their first month U.S. compact cars outsold imported cars by nearly...
Stoppage for G.M. By the end of last week, General Motors had laid off 185,000 production workers across the U.S. Following nine Chevrolet assembly plants previously shut down, G.M. halted all production of Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, closed down all but one Buick plant. By the end of this week, General Motors production, now at a mere trickle, will be stopped completely. Chrysler has already laid off 5,000 workers in ten plants, by week's end will be forced to lay off many more. Ford cut back to three-and four-day weeks to conserve its dwindling...