Is Chrysler a last name?I saw a joke about "John Chrysler" being non-existentin the NewsRadio TV show.What is the origin of the name of that company?-Ramon

Yes, it's the name of a guy, born in Hayes, Kansas, who grew up to bea mechanical genius, worked on the railroad, bought a Locomobile, while helived on a farm and worked on the railroad that became the Illinois Central. He bought this new Locomobile after attending the Chicago Auto Show, and he hadit shipped to his home in Olwein, Iowa via rail, whereupon he had it towed by ahorse and ropes, to his farm, just outside of town. He took the car apart andput it back together several times before trying to drive it, only to end up ina ditch, and had to get the neighbor to pull him out with a team of horses. Only a few years later, Walter P. Chrysler went to work for Buick, and becamethe president of that great company. He later left Buick to head up theChalmers Motor Company, and went on to a couple others, before going back tohis roots at the Chicago auto Show, with the car that he had introduced at theNew York Auto Show, only months before, the New 1924 Chrysler. All this...

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Dan Larsen 21 years ago

Doug, AKA "sparks065" snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com actually offered:

The point was that the subject of the original response, that was authored by me, was intended to encompass ONLY names of American Automotive genius, to keep the scope of the thread to a manageable perameter.

No one said they DID.

Really!!??!! So, . . . . guys like Thomas Alva Edison, and his neighbor Henry Ford, had their own heroes, ehh??

Again, . . . . . "DO YA THINK????"

WOWIE! -- ZOWIE! Good thing they were there, to teach those dumb ool' Americans how it's done, ehh??

Good thing we had the EuroEngineers, . . . . otherwise we dunces across the water could never have made it on our own, ehh???

Folks, I'm sure Doug has the best intentions, here, . . . . in his attempt to manipulate history in HIS opinion, but the subject matter was Chrysler and the OP seemed to be somewhat of a novice, obviously "foreign" to the history of Chrysler, and in answering him, my intent was to include a bit of WPC's ancestry and work ethic, . . . . NOT whether he was among those emigrating from another part of the world. NOT whether he studied other great engineers, . . . . (of course he did), . . . . NOT who his friends or heroes were, . . . . . not whether he liked spinach, . . . . or even whether he hired Breer, Skelton, and Zeder, because he truly needed them, or whether he was stumped to complete the tasks alone. Some folks just can't help themselves, when there's a chance to denegrate America, and/or her great history.

Thanks Doug, for the small window into your world.

God Bless, Dan'L

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Joe Pfeiffer 21 years ago

(I hope I got the attribution right)

If the intent was to list Great American Automotive Geniuses, then that's what you should have at the beginning of the list.

It still takes Not Invented Here syndrom to dizzying new depths, but at least it doesn't imply that all great automotive geniuses were American.

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sparks065 21 years ago

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Dan,

I was simply replying to YOUR statement, to quote:

"as they held NOTHING for the history of my country."

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I stand by my view that your statement above is one of the most narrow views that I've heard.

How is saying that ideas came from many areas of the world, a denigration of America?? Do you feel denigrated in life if someone also compliments the fellow standing next to you????

Doug

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Dori A Schmetterling 21 years ago

IIRC, your point was that they represented some 'Great American Spirit' (whatever that is), whereas my contention is that they were 'just' great automotive engineers, representing themselves, period.

DAS

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Dan Larsen 21 years ago

Please allow me the suggested privilege of pre-stating my intent in this post:

"I intend to turn the discussion over to the nit-pickers of the group!"

There! Having satisfied the suggested preliminary topical labeling requirements, a few facts need to be aligned before I can complete my opbjective:

First, DAS wrote that I left something out:

But Doug thought I should have included MORE:

In order to complicate the issue to the stage of "completely anal," , . . . . Doctor Joe thought it could have been better articulated, when commented:

What you folks have communicted to the O.P. is that the name Chrysler, and it's history isn't nearly as important as an ability to argue some infantile point of how YOU would have answered the question. Be my guest. I give up! I know NOTHING, compared to you, when it comes to the name "Chrysler." I hereby defer to the experts in the area of Automotive history, Mr. Schmetterling, Dr. Phieffer, and Mr. Doug.

God Bless, Dan'L

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