Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHRYSLER PAY CUTS will take three weeks' salary from all officers, two weeks' pay from employees earning more than $15,000 and one week's from those drawing more than $10,200. President Tex Colbert will lose $14,475 of his $250,900 yearly salary...
Bravo for the "Keep It Simple" article on autos [noting consumer rebellion against "ostentatious ornamentation"-April 21]. We have formed a club. The theme: "I-will-never-buy-a-car-even-one -inch-longer-than-my-present-one." Mine is a 1955 Chrysler...
...There are hordes of people driving the streets today who are ready and able to buy a new car, if you'd only ask them." Last week the Journal got a rise out of William O. Neale, vice president for sales of Los Angeles' Harger-Haldeman, Plymouth-Chrysler-Imperial agency. Wrote Neale: "The fact is, our fellows don't spend time talking about the recession. They're too busy doing something about it-with phone calls, personal letters, direct-mail pieces. We'd like to invite you to drop into either of our showrooms...
...until there are 11,088 agencies spread round the U.S. Detroit grumbles about dealer loyalty. Yet loyalty comes hard to many U.S. dealers, who have had troubles with the factory. Says Los Angeles' Mel Alsbury, one of the industry's most respected dealers and a 30-year Chrysler-Plymouth veteran whose cars have added to Chrysler's fame by winning the Mobilgas Economy Run three times: "My biggest complaint is that when the 1957 line was going fast, I just couldn't get stock. Then I took on the Renault line. If it wasn...
...imports its Vaux-halls and Opels at the rate of 23,000 annually; Ford is deep in the market with 27,350 English Fords this year, will soon start importing the German Taunus at the rate of 8,600 a year. Despite all rumors, neither Ford nor G.M. nor Chrysler plans to produce a small car in the U.S.-at least right now. The market is still too small, must be at least 500,000 cars...