Yesterday at a cruise-in, I met one of your members who has a beautiful 1954 Manhattan. He didn't have
any answer for my question.
I am a former (1965-76) president of the Willys-Overland-Knight Registry. In 1972, our club rescued
over 1/2 million drawings and blueprints from the W-O factory in Toledo. These were dated from 1907
through 1947, but there were a couple of later ones with Kaiser notations. I sent the 2 or 3 of these to the
then officer at the K-F Club, urging the club to make arrangements to retrieve the others we left there.
I called someone a couple of times to see if they had done so, but never did get an answer. It's been
a long time, but as I remember, the K-F drawings were just of small parts that may have been common
to later W-O vehicles.
If anyone is interested in the story that Ward Canaday told me about how he came to sell W-O to
Henry Kaiser, let me know. Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem, NC (but, someone needs to let me know
because I probably won't be checking this site very often). <
patchas@triad.rr.com>
