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The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was established in August 1945 as a joint venture between the Henry J. Kaiser Company and Graham-Paige Motors Corporation. Both Henry J. Kaiser, a California-based industrialist, and Joseph W. Frazer, CEO of Graham-Paige, wanted to get into the automobile business and pooled their resources and talents to do so. [1]
Kaiser Jeep resulted from the 1953 merger of Kaiser Motors, an independent passenger car maker based in Willow Run, Michigan, with the Toledo, Ohio-based Willys-Overland Company. Willys-Overland had been at one point before World War II the U.S.'s second-largest car-maker after Ford , but their fortunes waned during the 1930s.
The 1 + 1 ⁄ 4-ton, 4×4, Kaiser Jeep M715, sometimes called the "Five quarter (ton)", for its 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 (or 5 ⁄ 4) ton payload rating, is an American light military truck, based on the civilian Jeep Gladiator (SJ). Design and development for the M715 began in 1965, intended to replace the Dodge M37.
The Kaiser Dragon model was introduced on October 31, 1952, for the 1953 model year. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This time, the Dragon was a separate model, not a trim option, positioned above the "Manhattan." [ 1 ] [ 10 ] The special upholstery and padded roof now featured a grass-patterned "Bambu" vinyl and heavy-duty Belgian linen "Laguna" cloth with ...
Baron Sackville, an extant title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; Sackville School (disambiguation) Sackville College, a historic almshouse in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England; Sackville House, East Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
Edward Sackville (died 1714) Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville; Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset; Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr; Elizabeth Sackville, Duchess of Dorset; Elizabeth Thynne, Viscountess Weymouth
Marie-Thérèse Kaiser (born 1996) is a German politician [1] of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and former model. The Rotenburg action alliance Aufstehen gegen Rassismus (English: Stand Up Against Racism ) described her as one of the most important activists of the German Neue Rechte political scene.
In 1988, Sackville was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, due to her status as the last Flower-class corvette known to exist. [17] On 4 November 1998, Canada Post issued a 45¢ stamp featuring HMCS Sackville as part of the Naval Vessels series. The stamps were designed by Dennis George Page, based on an illustration by Todd Hawkins ...