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Ralph Roberts (automotive designer)

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in 1921 to look after administration. The founders left but he remained in the practice which grew to manufacture car bodies and was taken over in 1927 by Briggs. Roberts moved to
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Jack Wills of Pasadena California brought in Roberts and formed Wills and Roberts Manufacturing Company (WiRo or WilRo) in 1942 to make plastic housings for
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Roberts spent much of the second half of the 1930s in England setting up the
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Although a designer Roberts joined the founders of design practice
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Ralph Roberts' 1941 Chrysler Newport dual cowl Phaeton show car
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The Complete History of Chrysler Corporation, 1924-1985
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was an American automotive designer who worked for the
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and fiberglass droppable boats using one of the first
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Chrysler Corporation
LeBaron
Briggs
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Ford Dagenham

Aerojet
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Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Jan P. Norbye
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