Word: engellau
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...public enthusiasm at the Geneva showings that both Saab and Volvo are confidently looking forward to their biggest spring orders ever. Neither new car, however, will go on sale in the U.S. until it has been exhaustively tested on Sweden's tortuous roads. Says Volvo's Engellau: "If we didn't keep up the Swedish reputation for quality, we'd be dead ducks...
...gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau took over in 1956, Volvo production has climbed from 36,766 cars to last year's 78,527-and the company now does almost...
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