Word: packards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign parts last year went 515,000 U. S.-built motor cars. To the U. S. came 566 foreign-made cars. To Washington last week went Alvan Macauley, president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and of Packard Motor Co., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, R. I. Roberge, export manager of Ford Motor Co., Walter C. White, president of White Co. (trucks) and other automotive men. They went at the invitation of Pennsylvania's Senator David A. Reed, head of the Senate Finance Committee's subcommittee on metals...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million...
Following Packard's Macauley came General Motors Sloan. Mr. Sloan appeared nervous, spoke quickly, tensely, used no notes. He endorsed the 10% position. He added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought...
Automobiles. A movement within the committee was started by Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to reduce or eliminate the 25% ad valorem tariff on motor cars. Theory: this U. S. industry, with its huge exports, no longer needs protection. Motormen Henry Ford, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Alvan Macauley (Packard, National Automotive Chamber of Commerce) and Walter C. White, were among those invited to step forward and give their views on this change. When they failed to make prompt response, there was committee talk of subpoenaing them...
...other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York...