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DaimlerChrysler Reports Plant Schedule For Week of Dec 20, 1999

17 December 1999

DaimlerChrysler Corporation Reports U.S. and Canadian Assembly Plant Schedule For Week of December 20, 1999

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec. 16 -- DaimlerChrysler Corporation
reports eight of its nine U.S. assembly plants and all three
Canadian assembly plants will operate the week of December 20, 1999.
    Jefferson-North (Detroit, Mich.) will operate three seven-and-a-half hour
shifts during the week.  Belvidere (Ill.), Dodge City Complex-Warren Truck
(Mich.), St. Louis-North (Fenton, Mo.), and St. Louis-South (Fenton, Mo.) will
operate two eight-hour shifts.  Conner Ave. (Mich.) will operate one-eight-
hour shift.  Toledo (Ohio) will operate two eight-hour shifts during the week
and one eight-hour shift on Saturday, December 18.  Newark (Del.) will operate
two nine-and-a-half hour shifts during the week and two nine-and-a-half hour
shifts on Saturday, December 18.  Sterling Heights (Mich.) will not operate
due to inventory adjustments and facility changes.
    In Ontario, Canada, Bramalea and the Windsor Assembly Plant will operate
three seven-and-a-half hour shifts during the week and three four-hour shifts
on Saturday, December 18.  Pillette will operate two eight-hour shifts.