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But didn't all auto manufacturers benefit from WW2? And didn't GM overtake Ford in market share well before WW2 contracts? If this is just timing, why did GM
by carlivar 9y ago
But didn't all auto manufacturers benefit from WW2?
And didn't GM overtake Ford in market share well before WW2 contracts?
If this is just timing, why did GM thrive when Hudson, Packard, Studebaker, and others did not?
- dogma1138 9y agoFord didn’t have 2 major European subsidiaries, one in each side so Henry’s fondness for the Nazi’s was under much bigger scrutiny. Ford also didn’t shift all of their production to war production regardless of type. GM made everything from canned food, helmet liners and ammunition to bombers heck half of the M1919 browning machine guns were produced by GM, same goes for the M1 carbine, GM produced 3.4M out of the 6M produced in WW2 and same goes for nearly every other small arms. To put into perspective IBM yes IBM produced more guns during WW2 than Ford.