Author: Anthony J. Yanik
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814340857
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Auto buffs and local historians will appreciate Yanik's thorough and engaging look at this slice of automotive history.
Author: Charles K. Hyde
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814337805
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company. At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by introducing their own car. The Dodge Brothers automobile carried on their names even after their untimely deaths in 1920, which led to its sale in 1925 to New York bankers and subsequent purchase in 1928 by Walter Chrysler. Hyde not only details the brothers’ lives and influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in the early part of the twentieth century but also their civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of African Americans and women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local organizations. Despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry, but Hyde has put them front and center again to appropriately credit their lasting legacy.
Author: Paul Arculus
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1770677828
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Edwin Campbell was born in rural Ontario, graduated from medical school and settled in Flint where he met Billy Durant and married Durant's daughter Margery. Campbell gave up his medical practice in order to work with Durant in the creation of General Motors. When Durant and Campbell lost control of GM in 1910, Campbell became a founder of the Chevrolet Motor Company which he and Durant built up so that they could use Chevrolet shares to regain control of GM. Campbell's early friendship with Sam McLaughlin as a contributing factor to the creation of General Motors of Canada. Durant became a Wall Street guru and helped Campbell to become immensely wealthy. The Campbells moved to New York and became immersed in the social life of the city. After their divorce in 1919 Margery wound her way through a number of well publicized affairs and marriages. Following Campbell's death in 1929, Durant's life began slow spiral into ill health and eventual poverty. Margery was introduced to her fourth husband by her friend Amelia Earhart. This biography takes the reader through the intrigue of the automotive history of the early twentieth century, as well as the social history of the period.
Author: Steve Jefferys
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521304412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Analyzes management-labor relations at Chrysler during the past fifty years, explains why Chrysler has had more strikes than its competitors, and discusses the influence of political change.
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
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Author: William Lowell Putnam
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786412341
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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This is the story of one car--a 1911 Stevens-Duryea Model Y "Big Six"--and its famous owner Percival Lowell, the American astronomer best known for his studies of Mars and mathematical prediction of the discovery of Pluto. The narrative follows the vehicle, a product of Frank Duryea--of the pioneering Duryea brothers--through its time with Lowell and through subsequent owners to its present status as a moving landmark of history. This automobile made its debut in Flagstaff, which was at that time a frontier logging and cow town of Arizona with unpaved streets in what was not yet even one of the United States. It survived the years from 1911 when delivered to Lowell, through his death in 1916, through occasional use until 1938 when it was "abandoned," then through sixty subsequent years of neglect before being restored to its original form and condition and finally returning to Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill overlooking Flagstaff. Many of the important developments in the early history of the gasoline-powered automobile are traced to establish the context in which this remarkable vehicle was created. The community in which the Duryea brothers labored, in short lived teamwork, and their role in the evolution of the automobile industry are discussed. The text also provides an intimate look at the life of one of America's most important astronomers.
Author: Arthur G. Bedeian
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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