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...shiny new cars. One, in which Joe rode down to the City Hall himself, was the $1,600 Frazer. The other was the slightly cheaper Kaiser Special. Both of them, said Joe Frazer proudly, had been built "on the production line" in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s Willow Run plant. New York was impressed...
...Detroit. In Willow Run there were only 50 chassis in various stages of construction on the two production lines. Feeder lines for parts were not yet in operation. Cars were still being pushed down the assembly line by hand. In fact, by ordinary production-line standards, the cars were being handmade. In the light of this, Joe Frazer's prediction that K-F would make 2,500 cars in August seemed highly optimistic. Nevertheless, none could say that Joe and Henry, with plenty of help from son Edgar Kaiser, weren't doing their darnedest to make cars...
...corporation has already contracted to turn about 40% of its capacity (50,000 tons a month) over to K-F. Under an agreement with Wheeling, the ingots will be rolled into body and fender sheets at its Steubenville plant, only 250 miles from Willow Run. The steel from Portsmouth will cost more than that from outside suppliers...
...steel deal, Kaiser hopes to end one of his prime headaches. Once promised steel by U.S. and National Steel, he has had little delivered so far. Fortnight ago he was forced to start shipping steel to Willow Run from his own plant at Fontana, Calif., an expensive procedure. Now he plans to ship only enough from Fontana for 15,000 cars, expects to be getting steel from Portsmouth by the time these are finished. This should give him plenty of time to put the deal through...
Because of supplier strikes and production-line bugs, at week's end only five pilot cars had rolled off the Willow Run lines...