On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:33:26 GMT, "Bill Marrs"
wrote:

Chapter 11, reorganize and come out lean and profitable. Or not---maybe
they are too close
to it to figure it out.

If they do go TU, they wouldn't be the first. Let's make a list---real
manufacturers that didn't
make it.

Studebaker
Packard
Kaiser-Frazier
Reo
Diamond T
Rambler/AMC
Crosley

Feel free to add to the list, these are just the most recent ones I can
think of quickly.

Anybody seen the footage about the Ford plant in Brazil? Vendors under the
same roof,
very lean and agile line.

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One of the best was Hudson. At one time a real power on the stock
car circuit dominating NASCAR in the early 50s. Had several
innovations such as the "step-down" design that were widely
copied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Motor_Car_Company
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Hudson_Motor_Car_Company

also see
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08...o_brands/1.htm


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).