Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before. Chrysler production was rescheduled at 60% and Ford 25% ahead of the previous week. General Motors had not produced a car since Oct. 2, but this week at least two G.M. plants, the main Olds plant at Lansing, Mich, and the Buick-Olds-Pontiac plant at Wilmington, Del., are scheduled to get back into production...
...more reason to cheer. Buick added up 37,429 retail sales in the first ten days of display, with production lagging a month behind 60,000 new orders. It was the fastest start ever for Buick. Cadillac also reported much higher sales and orders than a year ago. Pontiac hopes to boost its 5% share of the market by offering the widest wheelbase in the G.M. line and probably in the whole industry. This means Pontiac '59s will be roomier inside, easier to control than the '58s, hold the road better. Pontiac broadened its wheelbase...
General Motors' Oldsmobile, out this week, is also much cleaner than the chromy '58 that sold best of all middle-priced models. Pontiac expects a banner year because it cut prices by some $200. At the top of the line, G.M.'s Cadillac has less chrome and more of a sweeping rocket shape than the '58, is priced al most exactly the same-from $4,475 to $12,000 for the Eldorado Brougham...
...General Motors' Fisher Body plants were shut down, and some 7,000 workers walked out of a Pontiac assembly plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...
...Ford 961,236 1,655,068 1,468,734 1,451,157 Plymouth 399,236 662,824 526,852 672,130 Oldsmobile 296,369 384,392 485,459 583,181 Buick 241,908 405,086 572,024 738,814 Pontiac 217,282 334,041 405,730 554,090 Rambler 162,182 84,699 66,573 81,237 Dodge 138,166 281,359 233,686 273,286 Mercury 128,270 286,163 327,943 329,808 Cadillac 121,083 146,840 154,631 140,778 Edsel 60,754 Chrysler 60,601 115,858 120,721 147,605 De Soto...