Automobile industry and trade

Unidentified Toyo Kogyo Company employees and visitors tour the company's rotary engine display room. Pictured: Mrs. Emily Gardiner (center). Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Toyo Kogyo Company employees give visitors a tour of the company's rotary engine test control room. Pictured: Mrs. Emily Gardiner (second from left). All others unidentified. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Unidentified Toyo Kogyo Company employees and Arthur Z. Gardiner (second from left), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, tour the company's rotary engine display room.

Unidentified Toyo Kogyo Company employees and Arthur Z. Gardiner (second from left), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, tour the company's rotary engine display room.

Arthur Z. Gardiner (right), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, with unidentified employees of Toyo Kogyo Company in the control center of Toyo Kogyo's Automobile Painting and Assembly Plant.

Unidentified employees of Toyo Kogyo Company Mazda plant show the tape reader in the Paint and Assembly Plant control center to Arthur Z. Gardiner (left), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo.

Mrs. Emily Gardiner (left) and unidentified others examine a Mazda Carol coming off the assembly line in the Painting and Final Assembly Plant at Toyo Kogyo. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Mrs. Emily Gardiner (second from left) and unidentified others tour the automobile manufacturing plant at Toyo Kogyo Company, Limited. All others unidentified. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is the United States Economic Minister to Japan.

With orchestra, ballet, and chorus arrayed on a two-level mechanized stage at New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, General Motors opened its seven-day Motorama of 1953 Saturday. In its display, GM introduced seven special cars built exclusively for the show--four with glass fiber reinforced plastic bodies. Photo shows: Harlow H. Curtice (left), Acting President of General Motors, greeting Mrs. C. E. Wilson (center), and C. E. Wilson, former GM President and Secretary of Defense designate. From: Beth Gore.

General Motors Corporation, through it's Counsel, Walter G. Merritt, pictured here, told President Harry S. Truman's fact-finding panel that it will withdraw from the proceedings if the panel considers prices and profits in making a wage recommendation for settlement of the strike against the company. From: Beth Gore.