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While contradictory rumors still rumbled about the misunderstanding which occurred when Henry Ford turned down a contract to build 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines, the Defense Advisory Commission's William S. Knudsen last week faced about and offered the contract to Packard Motor...
...Packard's tough, breezy President Max Gilman at once announced that, if his directors approved, Packard could and would do the job. He spoke of spending $30,000,000 at once for retooling, hiring 14,000 men, reaching a production of 840 engines a month within 15 months...
This week, Packard directors met to consider the deal. The meeting lasted all afternoon, while reporters waited. To them was handed a curt announcement: the Rolls-Royce project had been discussed, but "many matters require further study." Max Gilman apologized for a statement which "you [reporters] will probably think is a dud." It was by no means certain that the contract would be signed. Bill Knudsen's effort to get 9,000 Rolls-Royces seemed to carry a jinx...
...Canadian Parliament debated confiscation of the Canadian Ford plant. Officials of Ford's plant in Great Britain bought newspaper ads to advise the people that the plant was working for the Government. Members of the Defense Advisory Commission, meanwhile, began negotiations with other motor makers (notably Packard) in an effort to get the $130,000,000 Rolls-Royce order placed...
Henry A. Murray, Jr., Thorpe Nesbit, Neal O'Hara, Donald K. Packard, T. S. Thorndike, Herbert E. Tucker, Paul B. Watson, Albert J. Weatherhead, Benjamin P. Whitney, Frank Wigglesworth, Grafton L. Wilson...