Here They Come

WPB lifted the ceiling on automobile production, and Detroit's race to get there first with the most was on:

P:Ford had cleanly scooped the industry, was already producing up to 80 Fords a day; the first Mercurys and Lincolns are due about Oct. 1.

P:The first Packards are due after Sept. 15.

P: General Motors' Cadillacs, Buicks and Pontiacs will begin to roll off the assembly lines in late September; Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles, after Oct. 1.

P: Hudsons began to roll last week; Studebakers are due in early October; Nashes about Oct. 1; Graham-Paiges not until January.

P: Slowest to reconvert was Chrysler Corp., which had to wait longest for cancellation of its war contracts. Chrysler hoped to get the first Plymouths off the line by Oct. 1.

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