Chrysler Innovations
A master of business as much as he was of things mechanical, Walter P. Chrysler was the consummate engineer, so it should have come as no surprise that the company that bore his name was focused on innovative engineering solutions from the very beginning. After stints at Buick and Willys-Overland, Chrysler took over the Maxwell Motor Company in the early 1920s. One of his first tasks was to assemble an engineering crew par excellence.
Frederick Zeder, Owen Skelton, and Carl Breer had years of experience, their collective resumes including stints at Allison-Chalmers, Tourist, Pope-Toledo, Packard, E-M-F, and Studebaker, the latter where the trio formed such a juggernaut of engineering prowess that they gained the nickname
