Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:18:54 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: we really should get back tpo vanagon stuff was Henry ford and
the Germany VW Factory
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dear lamenter of who woulda shoulda coulda vw
it is well known in business circles and taught by the Nightingale-Conant
speakers all ...
that if any business inovator were to have the choice of loosing all monies
and infrastructure or their people ...
hands down the choice would always be let the wealth and factory go ... let
me keep my people ...
and thus the lesson is here that it is the people who make the factory or
process that is to become the vw we have become *enamoured* with ...
the argument about personal political prejudices or views is moot ...
the argument about bombed out or broken is a non starter ...
what is important and germane is that the people who resurrected the factory
were the people who best knew the people who would do it
they had a new willingness to demonstrate their collected value to the world
in a new light ... maybe even an act of contrition ...
i once worked with a Lithuanian fellow who had been a spy in wwii ... we
worked for a hard german super and an even harder german foreman ...
so i asks my co worker how can he work so quietly for these fellows when he
was once at war with them ...
he says to me ... that... not all were bad ... indeed as he made his way
through the network as a young spy he was often helped by local nationals
who were pleased to be useful for a cause other then what the government was
about ...
now at a time when the deeds of youth in their prime are the memories of the
old men and women ...
and we are subjected to the historical opinions once twice ... three times
removed from the event ...
those who said what ever or rejected what ever matter no more than the girl
from grade 1 that i should have married ...
indeed ... now i wonder if she would be as pleased with my life now if
indeed it would even be the same ...
yours
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@comcast.net>wrote:
> Living in Detroit and knowing him a bit thru articles in local papers I bet
> Henry ford never acknowledged that the VW was ever a true car. Therefore he
> never regretted not taking over factory and its later huge profits
> Charles Nighbor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike S" <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Germany VW war
>
>
> At 03:21 PM 12/26/2009, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote...
>>
>> actually, it was offered to Henry Ford... who responded "what they
>>> got
>>> there isn't worth a damn" (those were his exact words)
>>>
>>> he later ate his words, im sure, as the millionth Beetle rolled off
>>> the
>>> assembly line in the late 60's, surpassing production of the Model
>>> T.....
>>> :)
>>>
>>
>> ...if he hadn't died in 1947, less than 2 years after VE day.
>>
>
--
roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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