| One Of The US Auto Industry Big Three - Chrysler LLC |
| Written by Lawrence U. Olson |
| Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:05 |
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The history of Chrysler working all the way up to become on of the "Big Three " Us Automakers , all began years ago in 1908 when Walter P. Chrysler started his pursuit by participating in a Chicago auto show. He was thirty three years old and was hired to work in the then dominate transport industry of the time -"the railways". Despite his job, he favored automobiles more. When he witnessed a white colored Loco mobile, he was inclined to it and became indebted just so that he could own it. Then succeeded many months of puttering about the car and grasped later on how to drive this car.
The history of Chrysler working all the way up to become on of the "Big Three " Us Automakers , all began years ago in 1908 when Walter P. Chrysler started his pursuit by participating in a Chicago auto show. He was thirty three years old and was hired to work in the then dominate transport industry of the time -"the railways". Despite his job, he favored automobiles more. When he witnessed a white colored Loco mobile, he was inclined to it and became indebted just so that he could own it. Then succeeded many months of puttering about the car and grasped later on how to drive this car. In another four years, Chrysler turned his obsession for automobiles into a career. As a production manager for Buick he worked hard and rose to become the president as well as General Manager of a GM division. This was his first serious involvement with automobiles. He then, after having quit his previous job in 1920, took to resuscitating an unsuccessful Willys Overland company and repeated this job with another firm called Maxwell Chalmers. Four years down the line (1924) he was successful in launching his first car that bore his name. Three years had passed in time for Chrysler to achieve a great success at the time which he had bought out Maxwell and thus this became the stepping stone in creating a name for the well-known car manufacturing company called "Chrysler." Included in the Chrysler stable were automobile lines such as DeSoto, Plymouth automobiles, Dodge and of course Chrysler automobile products. It is said in the auto industry historical realms that it took but five more years before Chrysler became a complete automobile manufacturer. Of course a major landmark and milestone in the Chrysler corporate history timeline. True to his very form and character Mr. Chrysler was big and bold enough to challenge on two of the most known automobile brands: GM and the Ford Motor Company. In his futuristic design, the 1934 Airflow, it did not sell as much profit as the others did, but the company persevered throughout the Great Depression of the 1930's - The "Dirty Thirties". In World War II, the company was tasked in manufacturing military vehicles. The next landmark in the Chrysler history was Hemi V8 engine which was launched in 1951. Since then, Chrysler has led the way in developing new technologies from scratch and has always helped the company in being able to create high quality cars. The next major landmark in Chrysler history was the introduction of Hemi V8 engine which took place in 1951. Since then, Chrysler has led the way in developing new technologies from scratch and this has always helped the company in being able to mass produce high quality cars. Since then the company has seen its fair share of ups and downs; there is however no denying that whatever vicissitudes the company has faced, it has always managed to produce right cars and at the right times. |