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 | | When the car industry was in its infancy, auto pioneers usually named their cars after themselves: Henry Ford, the Duryea brothers, Alexander Winton, Elmore Haynes and Elmer Apperson, Francis E. and Freeland O. Stanley (Stanley Steamer), and Charles W. Nash and were just a few of many auto pioneers who took that route. |
 | | Henry J. Kaiser's small car entry was called, you guessed it, the Henry J. Sometimes initials took on a bad connotation: the 1908-1912 E.M.F. car, a forerunner of the Studebaker, was euphemistically known as Every Mechanical Failure. |
 | | America's native population attracted its share of car names: Besides the Indian, there was the Silent Sioux, the Shawmut, the Pontiac, the Hiawatha, the Sequoia, the Seneca and the Scout. |
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