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... in charge of manufacturing; Herbert Morley, vicepresident, pur chasing; Martin Breitenbach, controller, and George Lochner, vicepresident. Cliff Knoble, former Chrysler advertising executive, is advertising manager; Bill Jacobs, formerly with Oakland and Cadillac, is manufacturing manager. The Tucker story boils down to these questions: 1. Will the car work? There's no reason why it should not, in spite of those cracks that the first model wouldn't go backwards. Any thing that goes frontwards can go backwards with the aid of gears. 2. Money? Tucker got a good chunk—$15,000,000 from a public stock issue, and over $4,000,000 from dealer deposits. The financial statement at the end of 1947 showed $12,000,000 in cash remaining from the sale of stock and dealer franchises. Expenses so far have totaled $5,414,714, with preproduction, research, engineer ing and development expenses running $2,831,089, plant and equipment rental $421,846, administrative $1,074,395, sales department $252,914, consumer influence expenses $749,469, and discount on dis tributors' and dealers' notes receivable sold and later repurchased during the year $85,000. 3. Men? They're in. 4. Production? This may be the biggest question mark, since sev eral of the Tucker features will be exclusive with the Tucker. This has to be one of the ...
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