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dealers. It was his invention to make the dealers buy the automobiles. It was a brilliant invention. He also invented this selling on time, with General Motors underwriting it. He invented an extension of credit technique and a utilization of the dealers as the responsible people left holding the bag which were brilliant inventions in salesmanship. He always used his mind for that kind of thing. He was not a manufacturer. He was a salesman. He came into the automobile business as a salesman and as a man with some training in finance. He knew nothing about the manufacture of automobiles, nothing about that creative thing that Charles Kettering has, that Knudsen had. Kettering is tremendously creative. Knudsen was creative. Knudsen was the creative mechanic. He could make an automobile by hand. He also had been able to understand the utilization of machinery and power and to bring them all together. A true manufacturer is a very creative person for whom I have the greatest respect, and whom I think is one of the great leaders of American culture and civilization - the true manufacturer, the man who can make things and make them come out right and in the proper quantities, at cost levels that make it possible for the community to absorb them. It's a very delicate, intricate and imaginative type of