In 1951 Argentina sent their emissary, Brigadier General San Martín, to the United States in an attempt to convince an auto manufacturer to build cars in Argentina. In 1954 Kaiser was the only one to accept the offer with the rest believing the market was too small to justify the investment. Also, they didn't have the rugged products Kaiser did. On January 19, 1955 Kaiser and the government of Argentina signed an agreement to permit Kaiser to manufacture automobiles and trucks in Argentina...
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The company was founded on July 25, 1945 and in 1946 K-F displayed prototypes of their two new cars at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Kaiser was of an advanced front wheel drive design while the Frazer was an upscale conventional rear wheel drive car. The production costs and time available prevented the front wheel drive design from seeing production so the new 1947 Kaiser and Frazer shared bodies and powertrains. Being some of the first newly designed cars to hit the market...
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Kaiser includes Custom, Deluxe, Virginian, Carolina and Manhattan sedans, as well as the Vagabond 4 door hatchback utility sedan. Henry J, a small economy car including Corsair. Darrin, the first production fiberglass sports car in the USA, beating Corvette to market by one month. Frazer includes Standard, Deluxe and Manhattan sedans and the Vagabond hatchback. The 1951 Frazer Manhattan convertible was the last four-door American convertible until the 1961 Lincoln Continental. Willys...
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The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was the result of a partnership between autombile executive Joseph W. Frazer and Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser of Kaiser Company/Kaiser Industries. The company also combined the dwindling assets of the former Graham-Paige Motor Company. The concern was the only new US automaker to achieve success after World War II if only for [...]
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Over the years the company has sold Jeeps, the Kaiser-Frazer and Packard lines, English Fords, Datsuns, Volvos, and Lincoln-Mercury cars and sport utility ...
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The company added the Kaiser-Frazer and Packard lines and moved to larger facilities at 2500 Franklin Blvd. in the 1950s. By the 1970s, Winter was operating ...
... subsidiaria de la norteamericana Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, que había adquirido la Willys Overland de Toledo (Ohio) y venía de sucesivos fracasos, ...
There were cooking schools at the Century Theatre and tours of Heddon's, Kaiser Frazer, Rudy and other plants. There was entertainment by the barbershop ...
Ensemble, ils ont formé en 1945 la Kaiser-Frazer Corporation. Rappelons qu'à cette époque qui a fait suite aux privations de la Grande Dépression et de la ...