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to explain that Zeder felt that he personally had “‘a great sense of design, symmetry and beauty.’”63
If, as indicated, Zeder viewed himself a designer as well as an engineer he, more than likely, felt that Dietrich was superfluous. Inevitably, the two men clashed. Making matters worse, another of the Three Musketeers, Carl
Breer, also featured himself both as a designer and as an engineer – an attribute he fully assumed in his book, The Birth of Chrysler Corporation and Its Engineering Legacy.
Referring to an instance where he, Oliver Clark, and Zeder were reviewing a clay model for a 1940 Dodge, Breer admitted to being greatly displeased with what he
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