Chrysler history all began way back in the year 1908 when Walter P. Chrysler began his business by taking part at a Chicago auto show. He was thirty three years old and was employed by the railways. But, automobiles was his true love and when he saw a white colored Locomobile he fell for it and went into debt just so that he could own it. Then followed many months of tinkering about this car and it was only later that he learned how to drive this car.
In the succeeding four years, Chrysler retracted his enthusiasm for automobiles into a career. As a production manager for Buick, he strived hard with blood and sweat and advanced to become the president as well as the General Manager of a GM division. This was his first serious association with automobiles. After quitting his previous work in 1920, he revitalized an unsuccessful company named Willys Overland and iterated this job with another firm called Maxwell Chalmers. In 1924, he was acknowledged for his hard work in initiating his first car to the public that have had his name.
It only took three more years for Chrysler to accomplish a great success during the time which he had purchased out Maxwell that became the stepping stone in making the well-known car manufacturing company called Chrysler. He created both DeSoto and Plymouth automobiles, as well as the Dodge and Chrysler automobiles.
Even so, his futuristic 1934 Airflow did not sell too well but the company survived the Great Depression and during the Second World War, switched to manufacturing military vehicles.
The next major landmark in Chrysler history was the introduction of Hemi V8 engine which took place in 1951. Since then, Chrysler has led the way in developing new technologies from scratch and this has always helped the company in being able to mass produce high quality cars. Since then the company has seen its fair share of ups and downs; there is however no denying that whatever vicissitudes the company has faced, it has always managed to produce right cars and at the right times.