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DaimlerChrysler Reports Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of Aug 9, 1999

6 August 1999

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Reports U.S. and Canadian Assembly Plant Schedule for Week of August 9, 1999

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 5 -- DaimlerChrysler Corporation
reports eight of its nine U.S. assembly plants and all three
Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of August 9, 1999.
    Jefferson-North (Detroit, Mich.) will operate three seven-hour shifts
during the week.  Belvidere (Ill.), Newark (Del.), St. Louis-South (Fenton,
Mo.), Sterling Heights (Mich.), and Toledo (Ohio) will operate two eight-hour
shifts.  Dodge City Complex-Warren Truck (Mich.) and St. Louis-North (Fenton,
Mo.) will operate two nine-hour shifts.  Conner Ave. (Mich.) will not operate
due to model changeover and vacation.
    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, August 7.  Bramalea will operate three seven-and-a-half hour
shifts.  Pillette will operate two eight-hour shifts.