It's both. Plymouth vehicles were originally aimed at the market segment
dominated by farmers and ranchers, and Plymouth Twine was well known for its
quality and durability (wonder where that brand name is now?) and at the
same time the Chrysler folks knew that all the city folk were aware of
Plymouth Rock and all that historic stuff, so they figured the name Plymouth
could do well in both the city and country. For over 60 years they were
right, until the decision was made to slowly strangle the brand name until
they had an "excuse" to kill it. . . .
Mark mjh
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Graefen <wrgraefen@A-OMEGA.NET>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU <L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Plymouth Name Origin
>A friend is trying to research the origin of the Plymouth name.
>So far he has come up with the following:
>
>"I found it in an editorial in USA Today. It said the name came
>from an industrial strength "farmers" twine that had Plymouth in
>the name. Walter Chrysler said that every "plowboy" knew what
>Plymouth twine was and how strong it was. Chrysler was a former
>"plowboy" himself."
>
>There is another version about the pilgrims landing at Plymouth
>in Don Butler's Crestline book "Plymouth and DeSoto".
>
>Any others out there? Curious to know the REAL story.
>
>Wayne
>
>
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