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Ford Motor Company--Exhibitions.
in subject[X] New York International Auto Show.
in subject[X] General Motors Motorama.
in subject[X] Ford automobile
in subject[X] Ford Motor Company. Product Planning and Design Department. Central Product Planning Office.
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P. J. Gaughan was a product planning executive in the Central Product Planning Office (CPPO) in the mid 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, the CPPO assembled a large collection of photographs, taken at various auto shows, which were used by the Ford Motor Company Car Product Planning Department to analyze the styling of competitor cars between 1951 and 1967.