Passenger-car production quotas for individual automakers were set officially last week by the War Production Board. They totted up, not to 200,000 cars, as promised, but to over 240,000 cars for the last six months of this year. They also provided approximately double that number for the first three months of 1946.
In short, beginning Jan. 1, the production rate will quadruple. If production continues at that level, 1946 will approach 2,000,000 cars.
The aggregate quotas, by companies, to the end of next March:
General Motors 285,288
Chrysler 148,905
Ford 119,730
Studebaker 27,825
Hudson 21,602
Packard 20,118
Nash 19,550
Willys 16,000
Graham 16,000
Crosley 16,000
To give smaller companies enough output for economic production,...