page_title: Maxwell automobile
section_title: Takeover by Walter Chrysler
hierarchical_section_title: Maxwell automobile / History / Takeover by Walter Chrysler
caption_attribution_description: Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911
context_page_description: Maxwell was a brand of automobiles manufactured in the United States of America from about 1904 to 1925. The present-day successor to the Maxwell company is Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
context_section_description: Maxwell eventually over-extended and wound up deeply in debt, with over half of its production unsold in the post-World War I recession in 1920. The following year, Walter P. Chrysler arranged to take a controlling interest in Maxwell Motors, subsequently re-incorporating it in West Virginia with himself as the chairman. One of his first tasks was to correct the faults in the Maxwell, whose quality had faltered. This improved version of the car was marketed as the "good Maxwell"
  Around the time of Chrysler's takeover, Maxwell was also in the process of merging, awkwardly at best, with the ailing Chalmers Automobile Company. Chalmers ceased production in late 1923.
caption: Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911
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