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DaimlerChrysler Reports Plant Schedule For Week of Jan 18, 1999

15 January 1999

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Reports U.S. and Canadian Assembly Plant Schedule For Week of January 18, 1999

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 14 -- DaimlerChrysler Corporation
reports all nine U.S. assembly plants and all three Canadian
assembly plants will operate the week of January 18, 1999.  All U.S. plants
will not operate Monday, January 18, due to the Martin Luther King Day
observance.
    Jefferson-North (Detroit, Mich.) will operate three seven-and-a-half hour
shifts during the week and three seven-and-a-half hour shifts on Saturday,
January 16. Belvidere (IL.), Dodge City Complex-Warren Truck (Mich.),
St.Louis-South (Fenton, Mo.), Sterling Heights (Mich.), and Toledo (Ohio) will
operate two eight-hour shifts.  St.Louis-North (Fenton, Mo.) will operate two
nine-hour shifts.  Newark (Del.) will operate two nine-and-a-half hour shifts.
Conner Ave. (Mich.) will operate one-eight-hour shift.
    In Ontario, Canada, the Windsor Assembly Plant will operate three seven-
and-a-half hour shifts during the week and three seven-and-a-half hour shifts
on Saturday, January 16.  Bramalea will operate three seven-and-a-half hour
shifts during the week.  Pillette will operate two eight-hour shifts.