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Budd was the steel stamping king of the world for a fair amount of time in that era. They were building rail cars so they had some of the heaviest stamping equipment in the world. They developed a lot of the stamping methods for the larger stampings made for Ford like the large commercial van bodies so they were in on the final design of a lot of stuff for them. Ford Motor Co was still acquiring their own large presses to do more and more themselves at the Rouge but there was no way they could keep up the a million cars per year by themselves in the Model A era.