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	CalendarHome.com - Walter Chrysler - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Chrysler was then hired by John Willys to run his Willys-Overland Motor Company in Toledo, Ohio, at a salary of $1 million a year, an astonishing amount at that time.
		Walter Chrysler built a country estate in Warrenton in what is referred to as the Virginia horse country and home to the Warrenton Hunt.
		Chrysler was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1941 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Walter_Chrysler (737 words)

	Chrysler Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chrysler and its subsidaries are now part of the German based DaimlerChrysler AG after being purchased by Daimler-Benz in 1998.
		In 1928 Chrysler founded the Plymouth brand at the low end, the DeSoto brand at the low-medium end and purchased the Dodge Brothers automobile company; all of this was in order to set up a full range of brands similar to that of the General Motors corporation.
		The acquisition of AMC by Chrysler in 1987, mostly for its Jeep brand, bolstered the firm further, although Chrysler was still the weakest of the Big Three American auto makers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chrysler (2373 words)

	WPC Club - the Remarkable Walter P. Chrysler
		Chrysler accepted (he also backed out of the formation of Nash Motors Company) and received $120,000 a year and $380,000 a year in GM stock at the price of the stock on the day of the contract.
		Chrysler quit GM in 1920 as the president of Buick and the vice-president of GM in charge of operations.
		Chrysler was asked to come into Willys and save the banker's $50 million but the risk of not pulling this off was so great that Chyrsler asked for 2 years at $1 million per year.
	www.chryslerclub.org /walterp.html (1731 words)

	Walter Chrysler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer.
		Chrysler saw the way things were going and took a job at the Buick Motor Company in 1911, two years before ALCO quit the automobile business.
		Chrysler phased out Maxwell and absorbed it into his new firm, the Chrysler Corporation, in 1925.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Percy_Chrysler (354 words)

	United Motors - Chrysler Profile
		The young man was Walter Percy Chrysler, and his interest in the automobile would change the direction of the auto industry forever.
		Chrysler's reach not only extends around the world - in the 1970's, it even reached beyond the world - literally launching astronauts in the Saturn 1 and 2 launch vehicles Chrysler produced for the U.S. Space Program.
		Chrysler's approach to vehicle development, known as the platform team concept, was instrumental to Chrysler's success in building world-class vehicles.
	www.umc.com.sa /chr_profile.htm (1011 words)

	Walter P. Chrysler
		Walter Chrysler was born on April 2, 1875, in Wamego, Kansas.
		Chrysler sent a representative with instructions not to bid over five million for the plant which was valued at fourteen million.
		Chrysler played the role of a salesman and managed to prove beyond a doubt that there was plenty of interest in his car by the hundreds of orders he had for the advanced design of the Chrysler Six.
	www3.sympatico.ca /skpowell/wpc.htm (3061 words)

	Chrysler - Wikicars
		Chrysler and its subsidiaries became part of the German-American based DaimlerChrysler AG after being purchased by Daimler-Benz in 1998.
		In 1928 Chrysler founded the Plymouth brand at the low end, the DeSoto brand at the low-medium end and purchased the Dodge Brothers automobile company; all of this was in order to set up a full range of brands similar to that of the General Motors corporation.
		Chrysler acquired AMC in 1987, mostly for its Jeep brand although the failing Eagle Premier would be the basis for the Chrysler LH platform sedans.
	wikicars.org /en/Chrysler (2820 words)

	1926 Chrysler Imperial E
		Walter Percy Chrysler was born in 1875 He began his working life as a railroad machinist, but quickly realized there was a fortune to be made in automnobiles.
		The impressive new Chryslers attracted attention from the Speedway, which named the sportiest of the Imperials—the four-passenger roadster—as the 1926 pace car.
		Modified Chrysler production engines would compete at the Brickyard during the early thirties, and there was no better way to inaugurate the marque than for the original Imperial to pace the big race.
	www.geocities.com /chryslerscars/indi1926.html (372 words)

	Chrysler Building Summary
		The Chrysler Building is a skyscraper and distinctive symbol of New York City, standing 1,046 feet (319 m) high on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
		The Chrysler building was constructed at an average rate of 4 floors per week, and no workers were killed during construction.
		The Chrysler Building is an example of Art Deco architecture, and the distinctive ornamentation of the tower is based on features that were then being used on Chrysler automobiles.
	www.bookrags.com /Chrysler_Building (1900 words)

	CanadianDriver: The Founding of the Chrysler Corporation
		Chrysler took the job in 1911, and vindicated Storrow's judgement by becoming president and general manager of Buick when Nash became GM president.
		Walter Chrysler liked his job at Buick, and managed to contain himself for four years, but by 1919 he could take no more of Durant.
		Walter Chrysler was in control, and in 1925 he changed Maxwell into the Chrysler Corp. and forged ahead.
	www.canadiandriver.com /articles/bv/chrysler.htm (835 words)

	Chrysler Resources & Information - chrysler employee pricing
		Chrysler founded the De Soto brand at the low-medium end and the Plymouth daimler brand at the low end, and purchased the Dodge Brothers automobile company; all of this was in order to chrysler set up a full range of brands similar to that chrysler of the General Motors pt corporation.
		Chrysler retired all of the Rootes marques in museum favor of the chrysler Chrysler governor name.
		The design parts chrysler shown at the top of the page 300 is an fuel adaptation of the original winged logo which Chrysler used on its cars at its inception rebates in 1924.
	www.bizhisto.com /chrysler.htm (3841 words)

	Chrysler History - The Imp Site
		Chrysler United Kingdom is one of the four major United Kingdom motor manufacturers.
		With additional money from the Chrysler corporation itself, the injection of capital, a new model programme and various labour deals indicated that Chrysler UK was on the road to recovery.
		Chrysler told about their plans for new models years in advance, to counter the critics who said their range was out of date.
	www.imps4ever.info /marques/chrysler.html (1089 words)

	Chrysler's TC by Maserati
		Chrysler had gone shopping: they had increased their share in Maserati; they had purchased Lamborghini outright; and, not quite so peripherally as it might seem, had purchased AMC/Jeep (and a connection, no matter how tenuous, with Renault, who had finally decided not to bring in the Alpine A310 V6 turbo).
		It is not to be confused with the Getrag internals used in the Chrysler case in the late Turbo II applications.
		Chrysler is going to grant, to a limited number of superior Chrysler/Plymouth dealers, a separate TC franchise, and if the car were called "Chrysler," they would not have been able to do so.
	www.lacar.com /lenfrank/chrysler.htm (2838 words)

	Moldova.org - Auto - News - Chrysler
		Chrysler and its subsidaries are now part of the German based DaimlerChrysler AG after being purchased by Daimler-Benz in 1998.
		In desperation, the Chrysler Corporation on September 7, 1979 petitioned the United States government for $1 billion in loan guarantees to avoid bankruptcy.
		A return to rear wheel drive was announced, and in 2004, a new Chrysler 300 and a new Hemi V8 appeared and gave early indications of being a solid hit.
	auto.moldova.org /marci/eng/13 (423 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chrysler,
		It was founded by Walter P. Chrysler (1875–1940), who built it into the country's second largest automobile manufacturer, noted for its Plymouth, Dodge, and Chrysler cars.
		It was formed in 1998 by the merger of Daimler-Benz and U.S. automaker Chrysler Corp. Its German roots are in the auto companies founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, which merged in 1926.
		Audiences and metaphors of globalization in the Daimler Chrysler AG merger.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Chrysler,&StartAt=1 (836 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Percy
		He was the nephew and heir of the childless 6th earl but did not succeed on the latter's death (1537) because his father had been attainted for participation in the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).
		In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, accompanied him abroad, and after the death of his first wife in 1816 was married to him.
		The rift in the modern mind: Tocqueville and Percy on the rise of the Cartesian self.(Alexis de Tocqueville; Walker Percy)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Percy&StartAt=21 (874 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Chrysler Works"
		Walter Percy Chrysler honed his native mechanical skills on the great Midwestern railroads, then learned about cars by tinkering with a $5000 Locomobile he bought in 1908.
		Percy Chrysler laid the foundation for his namesake car company with an eponymous model in 1924.
		To prove their strength, Chrysler persuaded a five-ton elephant to climb atop a sedan at Coney Island in one of the firm's many famous period publicity stunts.
	auto.howstuffworks.com /chrysler.htm (903 words)

	Ethel Miller - the story of 1M Plymouth and more
		Walter Percy Chrysler had been born in Wamego, Kansas but moved as a very young boy to the town of Ellis, Kansas, where his father was an engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad.
		Chrysler was a solid, down to earth financial man where Durant was a flamboyant, reckless stock speculator..it all finally came to a head one day when Durant went over Chrysler’s head in a decision to build a new frame plant.
		Proof of the fact that Chrysler considers the Turlock woman as one in a million lies in the invitation to attend, as his guest, ceremonies to be held celebrating the construction of the millionth Chrysler Plymouth car.
	www.plymouthbulletin.com /ethelmiller.htm (5136 words)

	Chrysler, Walter Percy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Wamego, Kans. He began as a machinist’s apprentice and rose within the industry to become vice president in charge of operations at General Motors in 1919.
		In 1920 he undertook the reorganization of the Willys Overland and Maxwell companies.
		In 1924 he brought out the first Chrysler car and within a short time he made the company one of the largest automobile manufacturers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/Chrysler.html (132 words)

	Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home & Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Walter Percy Chrysler was born on April 2, 1875, in Wamego, Kansas.
		Walter went through school in Ellis and became a machinist's apprentice for the then renamed Union Pacific Railroad.
		Walter P. Chrysler went on to lead one of the largest corporations in the world.
	www.kansastravel.org /walterpchrysler.htm (217 words)

	Bookview, issue 159, Wm.Tienken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In Wamego, Kansas on April 2, 1875, Walter Percy Chrysler was born to Henry and Anna Maria.
		Walter's father, Henry, was a locomotive engineer for the Union Pacific who, when Walter was five, moved the family to Ellis, Kansas where Walter grew up.
		Chrysler is the definitive portrait of Walter P. Chrysler from boy in Kansas to being an automotive giant.
	members.aol.com /wmtienken/issue159.html (4033 words)

	Chatham This Week, Chatham, ON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Born in 1799, Henry Chrysler was the older son and during the War of 1812 developed skills as a flsmith and toolmaker.
		Henry married Martha Dolsen and became a leading citizen; he served as a superintendent of schools, chief of the board of health, and was a dispenser of charities.
		Walter Percy was born on April 6, 1875.
	www.chathamthisweek.com /story.php?id=163679 (759 words)

	If You Can Drive A Car, You Can Thank Brother Walter P. Chrysler, 32°
		Chrysler was born in 1875 in Wamego, Kansas, but he and his family moved to Ellis, Kansas, where young Walter was educated in the public schools and grew to manhood.
		Chrysler was more creative and flexible than his more rigid competitor (and Masonic Brother) Henry Ford, 33°.
		He also kept a firm hand on the steering wheel of his 1966 Chrysler New Yorker (see the illustration at beginning of article) as we drove over a suspension bridge on a very windy day in the state of Washington.
	www.srmason-sj.org /council/journal/feb99/MARPLES.HTM (819 words)

	Flint Timeline Project-Walter Percy Chrysler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Walter P. Chrysler came to Flint in 1912 with the Buick Auto Company.
		The $10 million Durant paid for the GM stock he received in lieu of cash, bankrolled the Chrysler Corporation a few years later.
		Chrysler, Walter P. Life of an American Workman (Philadelphia:The Curtis Publishing Co.,1938).
	www.flint.lib.mi.us /timeline/autohistory_0798/chryslerW.html (178 words)

	Classic Chrysler Cars › The definitive site for classic car and muscle car fans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Chrysler was formed in 1925, after Walter Percy Chrysler acquired the assets of Maxwell Motor Company.
		Chrysler had the plan of creating a lineup like GM did with their divisions, and by 1928 they had the Chrysler brand at the low end, the DeSoto asa mid range brand, and they purchased the Dodge Brothers automobile company.
		Chrysler's styling and marketing during the 1940's and 1950's was very conservative, due to many past financial crisis.
	www.timelessrides.com /classic-chrysler-cars.html (707 words)

	Chrysler Car History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Chrysler was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler, on June 6, 1925.
		Walter Chrysler had previously worked at GM's Buick plant.
		Interesting to note was that Chrysler created the industry's first wind tunnel to develop the car.
	www.paralumun.com /carchrysler.htm (174 words)

	Chrysler Windsor Parts - Chrysler Windsor Accessories - Partstrain.com
		This Corporation was established by Walter Percy Chrysler on June 6, 1925.
		The Chrysler Windsor released in the 1940’s was a convertible type.
		The final batch of the Chrysler Windsor was released in 1961 and in the following year 1962, they replaced the Windsor with a new non-lettered series which is the Chrysler 300.
	www.partstrain.com /ShopByVehicle/CHRYSLER/WINDSOR?source=cj (486 words)

	TheStar.com - Business - Magna should pass on Chrysler
		The CEO of Linamar Corp., a Guelph-based auto-parts maker that operates in the shadow of its larger rival, hinted in a television interview last Thursday that she anticipates exploiting the turmoil that Magna is certain to endure as it copes with what it has bought.
		Strictly speaking, any Chrysler deal would not be an acquisition but a financial restructuring, in which the buyout firms haggle with Stuttgart about how to apportion Chrysler's $15 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, among other burdens.
		Chrysler would be loaded up with debt to make the deal as self-financing as possible, starving the firm of funding for RandD and new-product development.
	www.thestar.com /article/203400 (1493 words)

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