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Toyota has sent out these "precision engineered" fixes to their sticking gas pedal problems.

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Looks like a metal chicklet.

Did any of you read the article in Bloomberg News about our old friend, the supplier of those defective 1956 Packard axles, Dana Corp. (now Dana Holdings) has just come forward with the info that they provided 34,000 defective driveshaft yokes to Toyota for use in their trucks? A much smaller # apparently also went to Nissan and to Ford.

The old saying that goes something like "the more things change, the more things stay the same" comes to mind on that one.

Randy: I have an interview done with John Conde who went to work for Nash in 1946 and retired from AMC in 1976. During Conde's employment with Nash he held the position of assistant director of public relations.

Conde in an interview stated that in early January 1954 that Mason requested that John L. Brown assistant to George Romney, Howard Hallis associate director of public relations along with Conde were given the following assignment.

In secret the three worked on developing a flip over chart giving a step by step plan for a possible merger that would be given to the boards of all three companies. Conde states that that the board of directors of all three companies had approved the merger in principle. However the Packard board of directors was persuaded by Nance to withdraw its approval.

Brown later told Hallas and Conde that Nance had insisted that he should be named president of the new company, Mason flatly refused to do this. That refusal lead to the withdrawal of Packard from the negotiations.

John F. Shireman

Randy: Some history on John Conde.

Conde while employed by Nash became the unofficial corporate
historian.

In 1969 he was one of the founding members of The Society of Automotive Historians.

Long time member of the Board of Trustees of the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library.
He was one of the volunteers who labored to sort out and identify the collection of photos and negatives donated to NHAC by Packard in 1955.

Served on the board of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum

1977 to 1981 he was the curator of the transportation collection at the Henry Ford Museum.


John F. Shireman