Automotive Industry Historical Viewpoints – Chrysler
Chrysler history all began way back in the year 1908 when Walter P. Chrysler began his business by taking part at a Chicago auto show. He was thirty three years old and was employed by the railways. But, automobiles was his true love and when he saw a white colored Locomobile he fell for it and went into debt just so that he could own it. Then followed many months of tinkering about this car and it was only later that he learned 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.
It only took three more years for Chrysler to achieve success during which time he had bought out Maxwell which was to be the stepping stone to creating the successful car manufacturing company called Chrysler. He created the Desoto and Plymouth as well as Dodge and of course Chrysler. It required just five more years before Chrysler became a complete auto manufacturer and this in fact was a major milestone in the Chrysler history timeline. He was now big enough and confident enough to take on the big two auto giants: GM and Ford.
Even so, his futuristic 1934 Airflow did not sell too well but the company survived the Great Depression and during the Second World War, switched to manufacturing military vehicles.
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.
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