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Buick
The Buick marque is one of the oldest motor manufacturing companies in the USA and indeed the world. Its founder David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929) was born in Arbroath, Scotland, but at the age of two he emigrated to the USA with his parents and they went to live in Detroit. When he was 15 David went to work for the Alexander Manufacturing Company of Detroit, which produced plumbing… Continue reading »
Cadillac
Henry Leland and Robert Faulconer founded a manufacturing company in the 1890s, producing automobile engines, chassis components and forgings, out of which the Cadillac Motor Company was born in 1902, from the remnants of the Detroit Automobile Company that was liquidated in 1900, following chief engineer Henry Ford’s departure to set up his Ford Motor Company. The name… Continue reading »
Chevrolet
Chevrolet has been America’s top selling and best known marque within General Motors for generations, and as quintessentially Uncle Sam and Stars and Stripes as it’s possible to get.
Paradoxically, Louis Chevrolet was actually Swiss born at La Chaux de Fonds, Neuchatel on Christmas Day 1878, the son of a watch and clockmaker Josef Chevrolet. The family… Continue reading »
Chrysler / Talbot
Amidst deep financial troubles, the Rootes Group was totally taken under the wing of the Americabased Chrysler Corporation in 1976 after acquiring the UK firm in 1967, and (with help from the British Government) a new small hatchback model was produced by Chrysler UK to replace the Imp. The resulting car (introduced in 1977 and based on the Hillman Avenger) was designated Chrysler… Continue reading »
Citroën
In the early years of the 20th Century, André Citroën ran a gear cutting business in Paris (a firm he had established with Jacques Hinstin), but he also became closely involved with the car manufacturer Mors. Indeed in 1908 he was called upon to manage and re structure this company when it hit financial difficulties. During a visit to America in 1912, Citroën studied the advanced… Continue reading »
