AN: Chrysler’s 88th birthday
Chrysler is taking a week to celebrate Chrysler Corporation’s 88th birthday. While the Corporation is no longer with us, it was 88 years ago today that Walter P. Chrysler created the new Chrysler Corporation, which, in a move that may sound familiar, took the assets of the old Maxwell Motors into a new shell. The Chrysler car and brand were about a year old at the time.
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Maxwell had already been through a mass of mergers, acquisitions, and name changes; founded in 1904 as Maxwell-Briscoe, it became International Motors, United States Motor Company, Standard Motor, and finally Maxwell Motor in 1913. Along the way, it picked up Flanders, Columbia, Providence Engineering, Sampson, Brush, Dayton, Courier, Moyea, and Pope, among others. The new Chrysler Corporation quickly acquired Dodge Brothers (1928), and then its frenetic pace slowed as the company focused on engineering and production rather than corporate games. Not until..
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Maxwell had already been through a mass of mergers, acquisitions, and name changes; founded in 1904 as Maxwell-Briscoe, it became International Motors, United States Motor Company, Standard Motor, and finally Maxwell Motor in 1913. Along the way, it picked up Flanders, Columbia, Providence Engineering, Sampson, Brush, Dayton, Courier, Moyea, and Pope, among others. The new Chrysler Corporation quickly acquired Dodge Brothers (1928), and then its frenetic pace slowed as the company focused on engineering and production rather than corporate games. Not until..
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1974 Plymouth Valiant - 2013 Dodge Dart - 2013 Chrysler 300C
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That'd be cool. If Plymouth was still around, I'd suggest they celebrate their 110th anniversary in 2014, since they started as rebadged Maxwells, ... and since the Chrysler was a model of Maxwell Motors...
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I don't think you can count the Dodge Bros. until they started making complete cars of their own. That means you can't count all those Fords they made for so many years.
Ditto Jonathan Maxwell.
That would be like counting Chrysler’s time at Buick (etc) towards Chrysler Corp.
Ditto Jonathan Maxwell.
That would be like counting Chrysler’s time at Buick (etc) towards Chrysler Corp.
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