Harold E. Talbott Inland Manufacturing Division to build wooden steering wheels at the former Dayton-Wright plant. Talbott served as president of Inland. In 1925 Talbott moved to New York and became a director of Chrysler Corporation. In the 1930s he served as President of the Cloud Club located on the 66th, 67th, and 68th floors of the Chrysler Building in New York City. General Motors Corporation took a controlling interest in North American Aviation and merged it with its General Aviation division in 1933. In 1932 Talbott became chairman of the executive committee of NAA. In the 1930s he was also a director
Cloud Club the top two floors of the Cloud Club space to tenants. William Van Alen and Walter Chrysler had differing ideas of what the Cloud Club should be. The former had preferences for the modernist style while Chrysler had a preference for faux medieval and baronial styles. Charles McGrath of "The New York Times" wrote that the final design "reflected a somewhat uneasy compromise" between the men. Christopher Gray of "The New York Times" stated that the "Cloud Club was a curious mix of historic and modern." Charles McGrath of "The New York Times" stated that the space overall "seems almost