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Chrysler Corporation
| A number of years ago I saw
a one page calendar that showed all the Ford
pickup trucks from the first one to the present day. I thought , what a nice idea. I thought that I might try something similar with some of the car pictures I have collected. I have been collecting pictures of Studebakers, Packards, Nash, Hudson and Jeeps and many more for some time now and I first wrote a web page on the Studebaker. Then one on Jeeps and Packard followed. Since then I have many page on old cars and pickup trucks. These pictures came for a number of sources including web pages of the manufacture, news groups and my own. Since most of these pictures came from news groups there may be a chance that your car is shown here. I would like to invite any one
that has a favorite
John MacDonald |
A Brief History of the Chrysler Corporation
| His name was Walter P Chrysler and he formed
one of the worlds largest automobile manufacturing companies.
He was born in Wamego, KS on April 2 1875. The other people involved in The Chrysler Corporation were John Francis Dodge and his brother Horace Elgin. In 1892: Walter P. Chrysler was working as a mechanic in a railroad roundhouse in Ellis, KS. While working there he learned how to make his own tools. In 1901 the Dodge brothers move to Detroit, MI and open a shop on Beaubien Street making bicycles and parts for the auto industry and in 1902 got a contract to build 3,000 transmissions for Olds Motor Works. At the same time Walter P. Chrysler accepts job as manager of the Colorado and Southern shops in Trinidad, CO. In 1903 Dodge brothers equip their plant to build engines for Ford in return for 10% interest in Ford Motor Company. Cancel contract with Olds Motor Works. By 1907 Walter P. Chrysler has become superintendent of the shops of the Chicago & Great Western Railroad at Oelwein, IA In 1908 Walter P. Chrysler attended the Chicago Auto Show and purchases a Locomobile. By 1910 the Dodge brothers business had increased enough so that they had to build a new plant in Hamtramck, MI In 1912 Charles W. Nash, president of Buick Motor Company, hired Walter P. Chrysler, as works manager. In July 17 Dodge Brothers Inc. was formed and begin working on bringing out the Dodge Brothers car. By November 14, the First Dodge Brothers car rolls off the line. When asked why the Dodge Brothers wanted to build their own car, John Dodge replied, "Just think of all the Ford owners who will someday want an automobile." In the same year Ford started to build it's own engines. In 1916 Charles W. Nash resigns as president of Buick Motor Company and General Motors Company and is succeeded as president of Buick Motor Company by Walter P. Chrysler. In 1919 Henry Ford purchased the stock of minority stockholders of Ford Motor Company, including the holdings of John and Horace Dodge. They suddenly became $19,000,000 richer. That same year Walter P. Chrysler resigned as president of the Buick Motor Company and vice-president of General Motors Corporation. 1920 was a year for Walter P. Chrysler to remember. He hired Zeder-Skelton-Breer Engineering Co. to design a new car to be produced in the Elizabeth, NJ, plant of the Willys Corporation. That car was the first Chrysler. Willys-Overland is having financial problems and in order to raise cash to cover debts, the Willys-Overland plant in Elizabeth, NJ is put on the auction block. It, and the prototype Chrysler (considered by the Chrysler group later as the model A), is auctioned off. William C. Durant used the plant for production of his low-priced Star car while the Chrysler is used as a basis for his Flint line. The Zeder-Skelton-Breer Engineering Co. worked for a time for Durant Motors Inc. transforming the Chrysler car into the Flint. In 1921 bankers approach Walter P. Chrysler to save Maxwell and Chalmers. The Maxwell Reorganization Committee is forced to put the company on the auction block and a new Maxwell Motor Corporation is incorporated in West Virginia, and Walter P. Chrysler becomes chairman of the board. At the same time the Dodge Brothers and Graham Brothers sign an agreement whereby Graham Brothers will use Dodge Brothers engines and sell their trucks through Dodge Brothers dealers. Fred M. Zeder, Owen R. Skelton, and Carl Breer head a team to design a new car, the soon-to-be Chrysler Model B. The car is introduced to the public at the 1923 New York Auto Show. The year 1923 saw a few more things starting to come together. The 1924 Chalmers is introduced in the fall of 1923, with 4-wheel hydraulic brakes, a test bed for the brakes on the new Chrysler. Chalmers ceases production and is replaced by the Chrysler and the Dodge Brothers introduced an all-steel sedan body. The banking firm, Dillon, Read & Co. purchased Dodge Brothers Inc. from the widows of the Dodge brothers. On June 26’ 1925 after two years of stock acquisition by Walter Chrysler and Harry Bronner, the Chrysler Corporation is incorporated in Delaware and takes over the Maxwell Motor Corporation and ends production of the Maxwell in May. Walter P. Chrysler is president and chairman of the board. In May 1928 May - The Plymouth Motor Corporation and the DeSoto Motor Corporation are formed. Walter P. Chrysler is president of Plymouth Motor Corporation and Joseph E. Fields is president of DeSoto Motor Corporation. On July 31 1928 Chrysler purchases Dodge Brothers Inc., manufacturers of Dodge Brothers cars and trucks, and Graham Brothers trucks. Main plants and forge facilities in Hamtramck, MI. Walter P. Chrysler became president of Dodge Brothers. In September of the same year The Fargo Motor Corporation was formed again with Walter P. Chrysler as president. In 1930 Graham Brothers Truck and Dodge Brothers Truck become Dodge Truck and the Dodge Brothers car becomes Dodge. 1934 saw the introduction of Airflows, the DeSoto Six, Chrysler Eight, Chrysler Imperial Eight, Chrysler Custom Imperial Eight. 1935 saw Chrysler set up different divisions. Plymouth Motor Corporation became Plymouth Division, Dodge Brothers Corporation became Dodge Division, DeSoto Motor Corporation became DeSoto Division and Chrysler Motor Corporation became Chrysler Sales Division. That was the beginning of what we now know as the Chrysler Corporation. For a more detailed history please visit |
This page was last updated on Feb 23 2009
1915 to 1949
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| This picture was submitted by Gene Angeledes from
California
The picture was taken in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1931. That is Gene in the car at age 5. |
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| The above 1933 Chrysler is owned
by Tor Olsen of
New London County CT Tor also owns a 1940 Packard Coupe which os shown on the Packard Page |
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| These pictures were submitted by Paul Black, Tampa, FL | |
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| This picture was submitted by John Barnes who owned this car in 1990 | |
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To view more Chrysler Airflow cars click on the car above |
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To view more Chrysler Airflow cars click on the car above |
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| This car is owned by Bryan Otero of Moline,Il
Bryan mentioned that the car is for sale. If anyone is interested please use this email link |
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| This car is for sale and is located in the
Annopolis Vally of Nova Scotia Canada The picture was submitted by Dave Thompson |
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| This picture was taken in 1950 and was owned by Fred Tarsa and a buddy. They went halfs on the car and paid $65 for it while he was stationed with the army at Ft Lewis Washington. They used it to tour the State. The mountains were tough on the brakes and every 50 miles I would crawl underneath and tighten the cables . No mishaps and afterwards we cleaned it up and sold it for $!00. We privates got $94. a month then. | |
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1937 Chrysler Royal and Imperial. Click on any of these images for a larger view in a new window. |
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This car was sold in the US as a Plymouth |
This car was sold in the US as a Plymouth |
| This car is owned by Costers Burno of Belgium | |
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The following information on this
car was submitted by
Jim Benjaminson of North Dakota Membership Secretary Plymouth Owners Club, Inc. This 1938 Chrysler Wimbledon is actually a Plymouth 7-passenger sedan, this car was final assembled in the Kew Works in London, England. The cars were sold in the U.K. as "Chrysler" models, although they were in fact really Plymouth's. This particular car at one time belonged to the late Keith Moon, renowned drummer for the rock group The Who. Later it was used in the filming of the movie "Lassiter" starring Tom Selleck. During the course of filming, the car was involved in an accident, badly damaging the front sheet metal. |
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| Superman driving is driving the car and Lois Lane is the
passenger
It was taken from a 1950 Superman serial "Atom Man versus Superman" The picture was submitted by John Barnes |
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| This picture was submitted by Igor Yashchenko from Russia | |
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Jim Benjaminson of North Dakota Membership Secretary Plymouth Owners Club, Inc. |
This car is owned by Jim Benjaminson of North Dakota Membership Secretary Plymouth Owners Club, Inc. |
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| This car is owned by Delmer Watson of Ohio
He had the following to say about this car. "I had this car in Dallas in 1952, did serve real well. The picture was taken at 3309 Lovefield Dr. as of now that piece of real estate makes up part of the north end of Lovefield's runway. Yep I was there in '99, Lovefield sure grew. I took A&E mechanics at Dallas Areo there. I can remember of no trouble with it, well maybe one,in the summer of '52 ,me, my ex, her girl friend and a montana guy drove to Rockwall, Texas for her girfriend and the fellow from Montana to get married, about 40 miles I think. There were 4 of us in that coupe, and none of us was no where near small." |
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| This car is owned by Wesley Willison from Southern California USA. This car had belonged to Wesley's grandfather, John Frimand who is shown in the picture to the right with the same car. This car is driven almost daily. | |
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by LeBaron From the Daimler Chrysler Historical Collection |
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| These pictures were taken in Truro,
Nova Scotia, Canada
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| This car is owned by Jon Lechich.
Joh has the following to say about his car. "First of all all the major car manufactures had blackouts. The reason for this is when the war broke out the Federal Government mandated the car manufactures to not use anymore precious metals in cars that were being manufactured after the war broke out. My particular model was only built for three months and then all civilian car manufacturing theist. So this is not a war time car as you might think but a civilian car that was produced for a very short time. Since I have owned this car for over 18 years I have taken it down to bare metal and had it repainted the original colors. When I was removing the old paint from the trim some of the trim had been cromed and some not. So I surmise that the manufacturer used up whatever chromed stock they had on the shelf and then continued on with just plain old metal trim but painted. I bought it oft of the second owner and he only owned it for about two years. The original owner of the car was a farmer who lived about two miles away from here. It really had not been driven very much since the early 8o's when I suppose he just stopped driving it and parked it in his barn. The car was in pretty bad shape when I got it as I had to go through the whole engine, transmission and whatever to get it up and running like a new 1942 Dodge. As I said before its probably the only 42 Dodge Blackout you will see that was built in America. I have seen a Canadian Dodge Blackout but it looked more like a Plymouth. |
To view mo details on Jon'c 42 Dodge and watch his video
on the car go to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqQXGqas7k and http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/1942dodge/? action=view¤t=ebe24104.pbw |
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At the time this picture was taken the car was owned by
Ed Belleck of St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The car has since been sold to a gentleman in state of New Jersey. This picture was taken at a show was at Blossom Heath Park in St. Clair Shores around 2003. |
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| This car is owned by Stuart E. Ryce, Martinez, Ca
It is one of only three know to be in the state. |
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Cleveland, Ohio when he was 16. Joe now ownes a 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst which is shown on the last Chrysler page |
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1949 was Chrysler&rsquo's 25th anniversary. Chrysler led the industry by offering key start ignition for the first time |
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| This car was owned by Norman Fikes, Bastrop, Texas | |
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This car is owned by Larry & Regina Burchett
of Austin Texas. The car has: * 56,562 original miles * 116 HP, Spitfire Flathead 6 Cylinder * Fluid Drive – semi automatic * Power top * Top, paint and seat covers replaced – all else is original! * Original Chrysler wheels * Considering selling - priced at $32,000 Larry
and Regina wants to rebuild another car.
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