Re: SP merger
Posted by Steve203 On 2015/4/10 0:14:50
Steve, thanks for the info re the foundry.
Re the reciprocity agreement, I have seen prices supposedly quoted to Packard by AMC for stampings to be produced at the Hudson body plant on Conner, vs quotes from other stamping plants. The AMC prices were sky high.
As to the story that Romney was furious when he heard Packard was looking at buying the Murray body plant, as Packard had already committed to Conner and paid, to move final assembly into that plant, I don't see why Nance would be interested in the Murray plant.
<i>Romney made gutsy decisions which allowed it to step slippery stone-to-slippery stone </i>
According to the Foster book about AMC, Romney met with the same people who had turned Nance down a few weeks earlier. The difference was that Romney showed them a plausible path to profitability, that Nance could not show. After the meeting, Romney told another AMC officer that he was totally blowing smoke in the meeting, but he did stitch together a program that worked well enough.
One more thought re Murray, supposedly Nance had been brainwashed that they needed to be in a one story plant, which the back part of Conner appears to be. The Murray facility was an old, multistory plant, as old as E Grand. The Murray plant is still standing, now known as the Russell Industrial Center. Here's a pic of the complex from it's Murray days.
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Re the reciprocity agreement, I have seen prices supposedly quoted to Packard by AMC for stampings to be produced at the Hudson body plant on Conner, vs quotes from other stamping plants. The AMC prices were sky high.
As to the story that Romney was furious when he heard Packard was looking at buying the Murray body plant, as Packard had already committed to Conner and paid, to move final assembly into that plant, I don't see why Nance would be interested in the Murray plant.
<i>Romney made gutsy decisions which allowed it to step slippery stone-to-slippery stone </i>
According to the Foster book about AMC, Romney met with the same people who had turned Nance down a few weeks earlier. The difference was that Romney showed them a plausible path to profitability, that Nance could not show. After the meeting, Romney told another AMC officer that he was totally blowing smoke in the meeting, but he did stitch together a program that worked well enough.
One more thought re Murray, supposedly Nance had been brainwashed that they needed to be in a one story plant, which the back part of Conner appears to be. The Murray facility was an old, multistory plant, as old as E Grand. The Murray plant is still standing, now known as the Russell Industrial Center. Here's a pic of the complex from it's Murray days.
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