Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes. Last October Chrysler leased 600,000 square feet of the old Graham-Paige plant, in anticipation of a bomber parts contract which came through eight months later. Right now this building has nothing to offer but clean floors, a fresh coat of paint, a few piles of aluminum sheeting and some planning boards, but here eventually the 11,500 parts that make up the nose and center fuselage sections of the Martin bomber will be assembled, production-line fashion (there are 2,500 parts in the Plymouth sedan body). Goodyear is making the wings of this ship, Hudson...
Tanks. Obvious pet of Chrysler officials is the Chrysler Tank Arsenal (TIME, Jan. 20). They like to cite statistics on its vastness: five city blocks long and two wide . . . six and a half acres of window panes . . . 9,000 heavy machines, tools and fixtures installed . . . "here, just a year ago, stood a corn field." . . . Last week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received...
...Trucks. Chrysler's Army Truck Proving Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works...
Guns. Last stop of the inspection was the Highland Park Gun Barrel Arsenal where the company is tooling up to make barrels, water jackets and sights for a 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Eight other Chrysler plants are also working on the 500 parts it requires. A Navy officer on hand for last week's show called the gun "the finest thing of its type in the world." Chrysler's President K. T. Keller said the guns should be in production by February, didn't say in what amount...
After the defense show was over, Chrysler's guests had about 15 minutes left to look at Chrysler's 1942 cars...