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Ford Motor Co. this week unveiled its second entry in the compact car market and the sixth U.S. compact car: the Comet. Planned as the successor to the defunct Edsel, the Comet is longer (wheelbase: 114 in.) than most other compacts, will sell at less than $100 above the Falcon. Ford hustled to get it out because the compact car market is proving to be the hottest thing that has happened to Detroit in years...
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...first place in the auto production race, the first time since 1935. Ford executives say that the company may make 400,000 Falcons this year. Already, Ford has switched a New Jersey Mercury plant to production of Falcons and of Ford's second compact-car entry, the Comet...
...Minister of Aviation, who has proposed merger as the only way for the industry to regain its strength and avoid costly duplication of planes and missiles. What made de Havilland, also sought as a partner by Vickers-Armstrongs, so attractive is the fact that it manufactures the Comet, Britain's only commercial pure jet, and has a major share of Britain's missile industry. De Havilland also has orders from British European Airways for 24 of its new short-range jet, the D.H. 121. De Havilland Managing Director Sir Aubrey F. Burke liked the new tie-up, since...
...powerful sales appeal of the compact cars, which account for 25% of total 1960 models produced so far. The orders are pouring in so fast that Ford last week made plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently wants...