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Bridgewater Motor Works, LTD Alan is the owner and founder of Bridgewater Motor Works, Ltd. He started his automotive career helping out his father at Tony's Gulf Service Station in Bridgewater as a high school student. Alan is the owner and founder of Bridgewater Motor Works, Ltd. He started his automotive career helping out his farther at Tony's Gulf Service Station in Bridgewater as a high school student. Alan is the driving force behind Bridgewater Motor Works. www.bridgewatermotorworks.com /pages/855483

The Cradle of Civilization Automobile works with Electronics to change the look of people to the modern style (4th row in the people.bmp file). Automobile works with Electronics to change city pictures to the modern style (6th row in the cities.bmp file). The tree itself can be modified, however a large number of 'slots' (row position in the table) have unique characteristics and care must be taken to ensure that tribes begin with and if appropriate discover technologies appropriate to their circumstance. coc.apolyton.net /guides/fw_advances.shtml   (1284 words)

TATRA During 1934, the Tatra Works again surprised the automotive world: a fully streamlined sedan was produced, with a V-8 air-cooled, overhead-camshaft engine powering the monobuilt body, the first car whose body's final form was determined in the wind-tunnel of a near-by airplane factory. The Tatra automobile, in the meantime, has grown up, after having passed the stages of poverty (technically) and of luxury (high price) to become an economic necessity. The factory at Kopřivnice was privately owned and operated, and the automobile was just emerging from infancy. www.tatraplan.co.uk /tatra.htm   (1994 words)

Flint Timeline Project-George H.Durand In 1925 Dort's death left the entire city in mourning.(2) The Dort home on Kearsley St. was the first home of the Flint Institute of Music and is the site of the current building. He was also the founder of the Imperial Wheel Co., the Flint Varnish Works, The Flint Axle Works and many other companies. That summer, both Dort and Durant founded the Flint Road Cart Co., but later changed the name to Durant-Dort Carriage Co. which was the largest builder of passenger vehicles in the world.(1) In 1914 he began the liquidation of the carriage company and in 1915 founded the Dort Motor Co.which was dissolved in 1923. www.flint.lib.mi.us /timeline/autohistory_0798/dortJ.html   (1994 words)

Trojaner Motoren Werke AG Home Whether you're looking for maximum performance, luxury, or economy, Trojaner Motor Works has the right automobile for you! Holding countless records, motorcycles from Trojaner Motor Works are equally at home on road and track. Our innovative Service Department is the first of any motor company in the world. www.freewebs.com /schwerdt/aurora/business/tmw.html   (1994 words)

Marathon Motor Home Home > Marathon Motor Works Marathon Motor Works was a an early automobile manufacturer, based in Tennessee. 1913 MARATHON MOTOR WORKS ADVERTISEMENT (Automobile) at OLD MAGAZINE... HOME 1913 MARATHON MOTOR WORKS ADVERTISEMENT Item Number: 472606 Price: $ 4.00... www.1st-for-motorhomes.info /browse/marathon-motor-home.html   (1994 words)

History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America In 1904 Durant was already a millionaire, when the directors of the Flint Wagon Works approached him with the plea to save the Buick Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer they had taken over as an attempt to shift their production from carraiages to cars. Henry Ford went on to found the Ford Motor Company and became one of the two outstanding automobile tycoon of the founding years, that is roughly the period between 1896 and 1920. Ransom Eli Olds had founded the company, which later became a cornerstone of General Motors, but by that time (1908) he had left the company, which was controlled by copper baron Samuel L. Smith and his sons Frederick and Angus. www.raken.com /american_wealth/OTHER/newsletter/chronicle280205.asp   (1994 words)

Coachbult.com - Wadsworth Mfg. Co. A portion of the plant was acquired from the Olds Motor Works, the first plant built specifically for automobile manufacturing. American Motor Body Corp. was formed in 1923 by Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel and other investors as a reorganization of American Motor Body Co., formed in 1920 to succeed Wadsworth Manufacturing Co. The automobile body plant in Detroit that Wadsworth had operated was sold to Chrysler in 1925. It appears that it shared the plant and management with Detroit Boat Company and several marine engine manufacturers such as Detroit Engine Works, Thrall Motor Company, Columbia Engine Company and others. www.coachbuilt.com /bui/w/wadsworth/wadsworth.htm   (1994 words)

2004 Reo Motor Car Company centennial celebration In 1897 he founded the Olds Motor Works and went on to invent the famous Curved Dash Oldsmobile, the first mass-produced automobile. Olds abruptly severed his connection with the most successful automobile enterprise up to that time. Ransom Eli Olds is generally regarded as Lansing's most famous citizen. www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/reo/reo.html   (1994 words)

SAH: Awards - Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award Cugnot: The Motoring Century: The Story of the Royal Automobile Club, by Piers Brendon, Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Cugnot: Packard: A History of the Motor Car and the Company, edited by Beverly Rae Kimes, Automobile Quarterly Books. Cugnot: Wheels of Misfortune: The Rise and Fall of the British Motor Industry, by Jonathan Wood, Sidgwick and Jackson. www.autohistory.org /cugnot.html   (1994 words)

The Literary Gothic Rudyard Kipling Kipling is believed to be the first English author who owned an automobile, so this may be the first ghost story in which an automobile appears (albeit in a fairly minor way). This site includes links to discussions of some of Kipling's works; while dealing with entire volumes, some of those discussions single out some of Kipling's Gothic tales. Kipling's ghostly tales evince a powerful interest in the psychological, and their subtlety and indirection can be quite impressive. www.litgothic.com /Authors/kipling.html   (869 words)

RUSNET :: Links :: Belarus Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), other site (en, ru) Borisov Plant of Automobile and Tractor Electrical Equipment [ru] Minsk Society for Consumer Protection, Affiliate Member of Consumers International [en] www.rusnet.nl /links/belarus   (1078 words)

Auburn, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Auburn is the location of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, held each Labor Day weekend, and of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and the National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States. Auburn is governed by an elected mayor and seven-member common council and a three-member board of public works and safety consisting of the mayor and two others appointed by the mayor. James I. Farley (1871-1948), member of US House of Representatives, 1933-1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auburn,_Indiana   (829 words)

4Reference Skoda Skoda Works was the biggest industrial enterprise in Austria-Hungary and then Czechoslovakia and among the biggest in Europe. Established in 1895 as Laurin & Klement, it was merged with Skoda Works in 1925. And "To je škoda" is a common saying meaning, quite literally, "It's a pity." In this way the automobile of the Czech Republic is representative of the distinctive Czech sense of humor. www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Skoda.html   (829 words)

TATRA WORLD Tatra was left with hundreds of unpaid custom built trucks with airco, the works grounds and test track full of sand-yellow T 815s. Ledwinka designed most of the types of automobiles manu- With the T 11 automobile and, in particular, with the fol- www.tatraworld.nl /tatraworld-historypage.htm   (3603 words)

Binar - Applications - Cutting-line Saab Automobile Saab Automobile works according to a concept called Kaizen, meaning "constant improvement". When Saab Automobile in Trollhättan was about to improve a cutting-line, they chose Bifas UHS to control their machine. The actual reason why Saab decided to change the control system of the cutting-line, was the lack of spare-parts for the existing one. www.binar.se /Services/Articles/he_ArtSaabCuttingline.htm   (898 words)

Elmore Significance Elmore State Park represents the contribution of the Civilian Conservation Corps to the history of the Vermont State Parks system as well as the contribution by the CCC to national public works improvement. Elmore Lake was known as Meade' Pond and mountain tributaries were harnessed for their water power. It is believed that the Elmore brothers came from Ticonderoga Fort in New York State with James and Seth Olmstead and Aaron Keeler. www.uvm.edu /~histpres/HPJ/NR/elmore/nrstat.html   (1600 words)

Joyrides -- Great Depression killed America's most revered cars -- Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg Cord's selling methods were so successful that he had to seek additional capacity and in 1926 he established a partnership with Fred and August Duesenberg. Alan Leamy, a stylist with Marmon, heard a front-drive car was in the works and sought out Cord, who hired him. Cord followed this triumph with the '29 Duesenberg J and with the magnificent 1929 Cord L-29, with a long hood to accommodate the straight eight Lycoming engine with front-wheel drive, an instant classic. www.detnews.com /joyrides/2000/auburncorddues/auburncorddues.htm   (1705 words)

Adler Driven by Erwin and Otto Kleyer sons of Heinrich Kleyer, founder of Adler, and by Alfred Theves (founder of the ATE piston-ring works), these cars won many sporting events. Among rear-driven Adler cars were the 1943cc "Favorit", the 2916cc six-cylinder "Diplomat" and the 1910cc four-cylinder and 2494cc six-cylinder models with partially streamlined bodywork built until the Second World War. Adler built cars with de Dion-Bouton engines and from 1902 its own four-cylinder engines. www.vea.qc.ca /vea/marques1/adler.htm   (1705 words)

McLellan's Automobile Literature :: Cars & Trucks - Skoda (Items with photos) Brochure is like a sb book, beginning with a twelve page history of the Skoda automobile, beginning in 1909, and taking you into their modern manufacturing facility. Front of sheet is gray, with black lettering and gray and black Skoda emblem, and frames photograph showing three-quarter frontal and three-quarter rear views of white Skoda S110L 4- Door Sedans. Front of sheet is blue and white, with black lettering and blue and black Skoda emblem, and frames photograph showing three-quarter frontal view of Skoda 440 2-Door Sedan parked in outdoor setting, with discussion. www.mclellansautomotive.com /sales-lit/bymake/skoda/index.shtml   (1705 words)

Belarus Now: Information and Analytical Bulletin; Politics. Economics. Finances. WWW.OPEN.BY; economics $119 MILLION FOR BELAZ Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ) has managed to receive this credit due to the assistance of Czech ALTA which has been co-operating with BelAZ for more than five years and is its exclusive representative in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Except for BelAZ, ALTA co-operates with Minsk Motor Works and a number of other Belarusian companies, Mr Ganak said. ALTA is to participate in it as the major equipment supplier. www.open.by /belarus-now/cont/1998/1020/economics/bg3-ec.html   (1705 words)

the TATRA pages (Automobile history chapter 2) The Ledwinka-designed T80 was constructed using the usual high-standard Tatra practice, especially the suspension which provided for a smooth and quiet ride appropriate for such a high-class automobile. The water-cooled L-head 5.99-litre V12, the highest capacity engine ever installed in a Tatra automobile, produced a healthy low-rpm output of 120 bhp and gave a maximum speed of 140 km/h to the big and heavy (2500kg) T80. Tatra (Zavody Tatra to be precise, which translates to Tatra Works Ltd.). www.autohistories.com /tatra/Tatra_history_auto2.html   (528 words)

Willys Overland Knight Registry - Stearns History This was the same year that the Royal Automobile Club conducted their exhaustive tests at Coventry and Brooklands on two Daimler Knights and independently proved to a sceptical world the stamina and measured horsepower increases possible with sleeve valves. These were achieved in stock cars, generally in the hands of their owners, not "Works Specials" and hence gained the reputation as the "Best Stock Cars in the World". One of the key reasons why the Stearns was so good was that Frank Stearns was not afraid to study the competition. clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/wokr/gallery/st_hist.htm   (374 words)

News -Second Quarter03 Saab Automobile AB and Semcon AB have signed a Letter of Intent, which means that Semcon will take over the Service Development Unit that works with technical information, concentrating on service and spare parts, as well as product information. Saab Automobile AB, based in Trollhättan, Sweden, is fully owned by GM, which has a 20 percent stake in Fuji. Saabs is launching its all new advertising campaign in the US after the not so successful VS campaign a couple of years ago. home.swipnet.se /danny/second_quarter03.htm   (1508 words)

Oshawa The dominant manufacturer was to become McLaughlin Carriage Works, developer of the McLaughlin-Buick automobile. GM workers certified the United Automobile Workers (UAW), an industrial union affiliated with the American-based Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO; later Congress of Industrial Organization). In 1918 the McLaughlin Motor Car Company and the Chevrolet Motor Car Company of Canada were merged into GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LTD (GM) with local entrepreneur Robert S. "Colonel Sam"MCLAUGHLIN as president. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005997   (254 words)

McLaughlin, Robert Samuel Après trois ans d'apprentissage dans l'entreprise de transport de son père, Robert McLaughlin, et après avoir travaillé dans des entreprises du même type à New York, McLaughlin s'associe avec son père et son frère dans les McLaughlin Carriage Works, à Oshawa (1892). McLaughlin, Robert Samuel, industriel (Enniskillen, Ont., 8 sept. 1871 -- Oshawa, Ont., 6 janv. En 1908, McLaughlin se lance dans la fabrication de carrosseries Buick pour William Durant, propriétaire de Buick Motor Co. à Flint, Michigan. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0004969   (273 words)

Automotive Developments 1908-1929 at Inner Auto Parts The first production four-wheel-drive automobile, built by FWD Corporation, rolled out of Clintonville, Wisc. It was first used as a demonstrator, and when the firm shifted entirely to truck manufacturing, it was used for nearly 35 years to haul mail to and from the post office. The Buick Motor Company, the Olds Motor Works, the Cadillac Automobile Company and the Oakland Motor Car Company had already achieved success and had been combined with other firms by William Crapo Durant into the General Motors Company. Custom-made ambulances made an appearance in the first decade of 1900 and played a major role in World War I. 1911 - By this time, the automobile industry had, for the first time, securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. innerauto.com /Automotive_Articles/Automotive_Developments_1908_1929   (916 words)

Helen Flint Biography - JayBrownGallery.com Although at this time Helen Flint works primarily in digital form, she believes it is important to continue to paint in the traditional manner. THE ART OF Helen Flint remembers at age four watching in fascination as her grandfather sketched the profile of a man. For the next 10 years Helen Flint never strayed far from this developing interest in art, drawing the human figure and other objects over and over. Upon graduation Helen Flint sought out the best art courses offered in area colleges, attending four different institutions in her quest for continued growth in a field that was now clear would be her chosen career path. www.artusa.com /flint_bio.htm   (916 words)

Yugo Redux - Forbes.com Bricklin said he expects to import the first ZMWs in 12 months and was confident his new company, to be called Zastava Motor Works USA, could sell 60,000 cars in its first year. Bricklin says the factory has been rebuilt and the company will be able to supply the U.S. market within a year. There is no doubt Bricklin is capable of creating the distribution network required to sell the cars in the U.S. He and his former partner set up Subaru of America's distribution network in 1968. www.forbes.com /2002/04/23/0423yugo.html   (960 words)

Automobile Quarterly - Feature: A Boy and His Bentley This was a fine debut for Kidston as a Bentley works driver; not only did he handle the car well but he performed flawlessly as a team player. The race was led by Woolf Barnato (W.O. Bentley’s financial angel) and Tim Birkin in the new 61⁄2 Litre Speed Six Bentley, with the rest of the Boys following in 41⁄2 Liters. His first race as a team member came at Le Mans in 1929, which a Bentley had won for the two years previous and for which five cars were entered. www.autoquarterly.com /bentley.html   (960 words)

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