According to "Kaiser-Frazer: The Last Onslaught On
Detroit", Joseph W. Frazer, then a Chrysler executive,
was responsible for the Plymouth name.
According to Frazer's account, he started out by
pushing the Pilgrim/Mayflower image to a skeptical
Chrysler board of directors. When WPC acknowledged
his own skepticism, Frazer responded by asking his
boss if he'd ever heard of Plymouth Binding Twine.
Chrysler laughed heartily, said "Every g-d-- farmer in
America's heard of that", and the rest, as they say,
is history...
--- Wayne Graefen <wrgraefen@A-OMEGA.NET> wrote:
> 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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