[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago

[Ken and Tracie]

Thanks for the input, Howard.

My guess is such a policy would have been in force during the Henry Ford/ 
Harry Bennett years.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HOWARD ANDREWS" <hwandrews at wowway.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 10:16 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago


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> I work for Ford, and currently we have no policy on competitor vehicles.Â
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> I'm salary at the central offices in Dearborn 3 days a week. We have all 
> types of vehicles in the lots, including imports.
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> I also work at one of our UAW plants in Brownstown. There is you park an 
> import in the lot there is a good chance it will be damaged during the 
> work day. But there is no policy preventing you from having a non-Ford 
> car, just peer pressure.
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> Howard
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken and Tracie" <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 10:12:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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> I know Ford used to be very strict about not allowing competitors' 
> vehicles
> in employee parking areas. But I will have to research this question as I
> really don't know answer.
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> K.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:09 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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>> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:51:44 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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>> Worked his entire life working in the industry and wouldn't use transit,
>> eh?
>> Reminds me of the following.
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>> During 1983, while in St. Louis, I couldn't help but notice that an
>> employee
>> lot at one of the Chrysler plants was full of Ford, GM, Japanese and
>> German
>> automobiles.
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>> K.
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>> Mr.Josephson;
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>> With your interest in autos you can probably detail the history
>> of the automakers disallowing 'foreign' autos in the employee
>> parking lots; Â they had to be from the mfgr didn't they. Â That has
>> obviously changed but I don't know when.
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>> I know of transit employees who don't ride transit; Â don't know
>> the specific reasons beyond  'choice.'
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>> Phil
>> Without  a  'coast'  but  not  a  'cause.'
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:19 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh, Four Hours Ago
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>>> And there is one retired railfan who has been preaching to me for
>>> months about how he would never consider riding transit. Â He was
>>> explaining how he used to live in Upper Darby and worked at 30th
>>> Street and simply would not even consider riding the elevated ... he
>>> gave me every reason in the book why but I think it boiled down to
>>> the "wrong kind of people" rode the el. Â He also has been telling me
>>> how none of his tax money should ever be spent on mass transit
>>> because it useless. Â Yet the man spent his entire life working in
>>> that industry!
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