Re: Romney's selective memory

Posted by PackardV8 On 2015/8/20 23:05:57

QUote from post #1 above:

" Then he cried
about Packard trying to buy the Briggs plant,
which he called a "stamping plant", instead of
buying stampings from AMC, when the facts
were Packard needed a full body plant, no"

Someone correct me if i am wrong but Hudson bought stampings from Briggs. Hudson did not have it's own stamping.

AMC had only stampings in Milwaukee (not Kenosha) and trucked the bodies in white to Kenosha. So Not likely Packard would want such a distant stamping plant.

Romney only wanted Packard for their dealer network. Again, i am under the impression that Packard had an excellent dealer network.
Nash/AMC NEVER had a dealer network worth a shit. Dealers too far apprt and too few with the exception of a few regional areas.

Here in the South there was scarcely an AMC dealer. Ditto for Hudson.

The only reason AMC wanted Jeep was for Gov't contracts.

Note that AMC was another (later) Chrysler type operation. i.e. a bad case of corporate incest. Predominantly Mormons at the top levels of management. Williard T Marriot (of Marriot hotel fame) was one of the MAJOR players/ stock holders of AMC.

Basically, AMC, at least in the post war era was little more than just a paycheck clearinghouse or kind of a "front" for family/religous affiliate members thru political contracts etc. Without the Gov't contracts (Jeep and AM-General , buses, military tacticle vehicles etc) the company would have never survived 1958 on cars alone.