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DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule For Week of May 24, 1999

21 May 1999

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Reports U.S. and Canadian Assembly Plant Schedule For Week of May 24, 1999

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., May 20 -- DaimlerChrysler Corporation
reports eight of its nine U.S. assembly plants and all three
Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of May 24, 1999.  All three
Canadian plants will not operate on Monday, May 24 due to the Victoria Day
holiday.
    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, May
22.  Conner Ave. (Mich.) will operate one eight-hour shift.  Belvidere (Ill.)
and Toledo (Ohio) will operate two eight-hour shifts during the week and two
eight-hour shifts on Saturday, May 22.  St. Louis-North (Fenton, Mo.) and St.
Louis-South (Fenton, Mo.) will operate two nine-hour shifts during the week
and two eight-hour shifts on Saturday, May 22.  Dodge City Complex-Warren
Truck (Mich.) and Newark (Del.) will operate two nine-and-a-half hour shifts
during the week and two eight-hour shifts on Saturday, May 22.  Sterling
Heights (Mich.) will not operate due to inventory adjustment.
    In Ontario, Canada, Bramalea and the Windsor Assembly Plant will operate
three seven-and-a-half hour shifts during the week.  Pillette will operate two
eight-hour shifts.