Cars week: USA only made 139 cars when they were busy doing WW2

Cars week: USA only made 139 cars when they were busy doing WW2

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Speaker 1 (00:17):
This week it's cars week in fact of the day. Okay,
everybody's got a got a, got a car or needs
a car, have a carlies on other people's cars.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
It does.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
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not having an endless responsibilities.

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Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's have that.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
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(01:32):
this guy that basically came in and changed New York City.
Oh yeah, And this guy wanted wealthy people to be
able to tootle around New York City and their cars.
So he was just like, you don't own that land
anymore cars. But he called them parkways. He didn't call
them motorways. Oh yeah, because that sounds nicer, right, curious,
leisurely to chugger chugger and your old school car. And
of course then everybody just became reliant on it. Actually

(01:53):
a very interesting listen to be learned.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's a sort of.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Around the world. The more lanes of road you build,
people will just drive more cars on them. You'll never
be able to keep up with no expansion. Interesting, I
thought it is. But this guy was kind of redesigned
in New York City to be a car city. And
then they talked about how in the forties no new
cars went on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
And that's kind of what got me interested. I was like,
I need to know exactly how many there's no new cars.
So here it is.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
In nineteen forty one, just before they entered World War two,
the US made three million cars and one year nineteen
forty one, Okay, then for the rest of World War
II until the end of like when it ended in
nineteen forty five, from when they entered the war at
the end of nineteen forty one when Pearl Harbor was bombed,

(02:43):
how many cars do you think were built in the
United States of America for the remainder of the war
after the US entered it, thinking that all of their
resources had to be put into building planes and bombs
and tanks and military vehicles.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Then yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I wouldn't even know one hundred and thirty nine cars. Wow,
car during the entire.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Rest of the because all the factories would have been
turned into war making.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
They were all repurposed. Yeah, so did they?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Is that when this sort of idea of like a
turner's car auctions came up and we started buying other
people's old car second hand cars. But no, but people
didn't trade in their cars because they couldn't get new ones.
Oh yeah, the trade, the second hand car market relies
on the fact that there's a new car market. So
everybody just kept driving what they had. Yeah, I'm guessing
except for the very rich few that could afford these

(03:32):
one hundred and thirty nine cars. So to put it
into perspective, the Ford Motor Company started just went straight
into manufacturing B twenty four Liberator long range bombers. I
love mere World War Two, but those are the ones
that were in the B twenty sevens Okay planes, doesn't

(03:53):
it so to be? But the B twenty four Liberator
was like the precursor to that, and the average Ford
car at the time in this Ward Motor company that
was making cars had fifteen thousand parts. The B twenty
four Liberator had one point five million parts, and one
was being made every sixty three minutes. Gile of these
planes was rolling off the So you can see why

(04:15):
cars came to a complete hole.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, I've been manufactured because something with significantly more.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Parts, a thousand times more parts being made one every
sixty three minutes. Now it's taking them for ever to
build planes, or the airlines are like still waiting for
our planes five years late.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, I mean they could crank out one.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Every sixty three minutes as long as you were willing
to give up cars and drive in and flying one.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Of the craziest ratleist cold year. I don't want to
fly a plane that was built in an hour either. Nah,
take your time with the planes.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Sixty three minutes not enough time to get building a plane, Yeah,
from scratch.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
But then gave you a parachute. Yeah, that's Jack did
give you one of those. So today's back to the day.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
As from when the USA entered the World War Two
to when the World War Two ended, only one hundred
thirty nine cars were made during that entire period.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
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Speaker 3 (05:08):
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