1941 Parade of Progress Starts Tour
Designed to show how industrial research and constantly advancing industrial techniques contribute to the vigor and strength of the nation, this newly designed traveling exposition was formally opened at Miami, FL, on Feb. 26 by General Motors, launching a nation-wide tour.
"The permanent defense of America, both in the immediate future and in succeeding years, is going to require greater ingenuity and inventiveness, more dissatisfaction with old and inefficient ways of doing things, and more real hard work to fully utilize our natural resources of men, money and materials than ever before," said Charles F. Kettering, GM Vice-president in charge of research, in sounding the keynote of the newly designed General Motors Parade of Progress.
In launching the new traveling exposition, which is an out-of-doors show composed of the huge "Aer-o-Dome," a tent seating 1,500 persons, and 22 streamlined Futurliner transports and tractor units arranged for public display, Mr. Kettering expressed his opinion that the hope of America lies in our belief in research.