Impassioned by mechanics and transport, Walter Percy Chrysler begins his career in the railroads, where it forges a beautiful reputation in " soignant" and by improving the enormous machines of the Pacific Union. Discovering the car with the Living room of New York, in 1908, it is caught of a new passion. It invests all its economies in the purchase of a car and seeks an employment in this new sector. It accepts a station at Buick, for half of its preceding wages, and climbs little by little the levels.

Chrysler creates its first car in 1908.

After a passage at Willys Overland, it takes again the firm Maxwell Motors, which is at the edge of the bankruptcy. It launches its first model, the Chrysler Six, in 1924, then absorbs the old firm completely and founds finally the Chrysler Company, in 1925. Faithful to his passion of mechanics, Walter Chrysler will not have of cease to innovate by proposing original solutions: hydraulically-operated brakes on the four wheels, floating engine, independent suspensions, aerodynamic lines, etc a policy which, combined with attractive tariffs, will quickly make of Chrysler the third " grand" of Strait. Walter Chrylser dies prematurely in 1940.

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