Legacy With AMC
Mason eventually banded together Nash and the Hudson Motor Car Company to benefit from the varieties of strength that each brought to the table. While formal and informal merger talks were held between Nash and the various independents, the only merger that Mason actually entered into was with Hudson. This occurred on May 1, 1954 to form American Motors Corporation (AMC). Similar mergers between Willys and Kaiser, as well as Studebaker and Packard also happened between 1953 and 1954.
Within months of the closure of the deal, George Mason died at age 63 of acute pancreatitis and pneumonia in Detroit, Michigan. Mason's protégé, AMC Vice President George W. Romney, succeeded Mason as Chairman and CEO. One of Romney's first acts was to stop rumors that there were additional merger talks between AMC and Studebaker-Packard Corporation or any automakers. According to Mason's obituary in Time magazine, had AMC and Studebaker-Packard joined, it would have resulted in the second largest automaker in the world, behind General Motors.
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