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		Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio, the youngest son of flsmith and pattern-maker Pliny Fiske Olds and his wife Sarah Whipple Olds.
		Olds was the primary financier the Olds Tower.
		Olds was a Republican, and served as a delegate from Michigan's 6th District to the 1908 Republican National Convention, which nominated William Howard Taft for president.
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	Ransom E. Olds - Definition, explanation
		He founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan in 1897.
		Ransom E. Olds left his company in 1904 and went on to form the REO Motor Company, using the initials of his name as an acronym.
		The Olds company was bought by General Motors in 1908 and formed the basis of the Oldsmobile.
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	Ransom E. Olds Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Two older Olds brothers were many years Ranny's senior, and had by then struck out on their own, but the third son, Wallace, joined his father in the family business, P. Olds and Son; while still in school Ransom Olds also began working at the shop, which both manufactured and repaired steam engines.
		Olds had learned a great deal from observing the ups and downs of his father's business ventures, and soon proved to be an adept third manager from the launch of P. Olds and Son in 1880.
		Olds would later say that all the plans and patterns had been destroyed in the fire (which was not true), and that only one model had been saved by a brave worker--his curved-dash runabout (actually, this and several other prototypes emerged safely from a fireproof vault).
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	Ransom E. Olds (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864–August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of American automobile industry.
		The Olds company was bought by General Motors in 1908 and formed the basis of the Oldsmobile.
		In 1913, Olds purchased 37,541 acres of land by the northern part of Tampa Bay in Florida and developed the area into what is now the city of Oldsmar.
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	Top Literature - Ransom E. Olds
		Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio, the son of flsmith Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah Whipple Olds, moving later to Lansing, Michigan.
		Olds and Smith clashed frequently until Smith removed Olds from the position of vice president and general manager in 1904 and Ransom E. Olds left his company.
		Ransom E. Olds created the assembly line in 1901, although most credit Henry Ford, whose contribution was to refine the process and perfect the standardization of components.
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		Ransom and Smith clashed frequently until Smith removed Ransom from the position of vice president and general manager in 1904 and Ransom E. Olds left his company.
		Ransom served as president (until 1925) and later chairman of REO.
		The Olds Motor Works company was bought by General Motors in 1908 and formed the basis of the Oldsmobile.
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	Ransom E. Olds
		Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 - August 26, 1950) founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan in 1897.
		He left the company in 1904, but in 1905 it was bought by General Motors in 1908 and formed the basis of the Oldsmobile.
		Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio in 1864.
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	Flint Timeline Project-Ransom E. Olds
		Ransom E. Olds was the founder and head of the Olds Motor Works.
		He founded the REO, (his initials) Motor Car Company in Lansing and served as its president from 1904 to 1924, later becoming chairman of the company.
		Ransom E. Olds Holds Prominent Position in Story of Automobile as 'Schoolmaster of Motordom' and Father of Popular-Priced Car," Flint Journal, June 29, 1939.
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	Born in fire -- the curved-dash Olds
		The first auto factory in Detroit was built in 1900 by Ransom E. Olds, a young automotive wizard from Lansing who had actually built cars and ran them several years before the Duryeas did and perhaps as early as Daimler and Benz in Germany.
		The little Curved Dash Olds was a favorite in the plant, but it was not widely known to the public and was not much of a factor in the company's sales.
		Ransom Olds was waiting in the lobby of the hotel to greet him, but Chapin -- covered with grease and dust -- was ordered by the doorman to use the service entrance at the rear of the hotel.
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	Ransom E. Olds \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Olds was one of the early pioneers of the automobile industry.
		Olds' first car, the "runabout," was mass produced in 1901 and was considered the first mass produced automobile using interchangeable parts.
		He formed his own company in 1904 and for almost a decade it was considered one of the leaders in the industry.
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	Reo Automobile
		Olds, seeing the gasoline engine as the engine of the future, favoring a small, light, inexpensive machine that would sell to the middle class for about $600.
		Ransom Olds retired as president of the company in 1923, and died in 1950.
		Although Ransom Olds was an innovator and quality control fanatic, he lacked the determination and aggressiveness of Henry Ford and others.
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		Ransom Eli Olds (1864 - 1950) was a manufacturer in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
		By 1904, Ransom Olds had moved on from the company he founded to start REO Motor Car Company where he served as the president for over 20 years and later became the chairman.
		"Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in Lansing in 1897, and soon after the turn of the century "the Olds" became a favorite with its Curved Dash.
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	Oldsmobile at 100 - The Early Years
		Ransom E. Olds was born to Sarah Olds on June 3, 1864 in Geneva, Ohio.
		Ransom E. traveled to many technical fairs and was aware of the early gasoline engine designs of Daimler and Benz.
		Ransom E. retired from the Oldsmobile Motor Works in 1904 and soon set up a rival company called REO (his initials).
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	Blackhawk Auto Exhibition: 1901 Oldsmobile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Olds Motor Vehicle Company was organized in Michigan, in 1897, by Ransom E. Olds, who built his first gasoline-powered vehicle in 1896; production of the “Curved Dash” Runabout started in 1901.
		Olds featured an all spur-geared two-speed transmission, center chain drive, and two longitudinal springs running fore and aft that served as side frame members.
		Ransom E. Olds left the company in 1904 and started manufacturing the REO; production of the Curved Dash ceased in 1907 and William C. Durant purchased Olds Motor Works the following year for his new General Motors Company.
	www.blackhawkmuseum.org /bhm/profiles/olds/olds01.html (172 words)

	Charles Duryea and Ransom E. Olds Signature Lot. Charles Duryea Signature and Ransom E. Olds Autograph Document Signed. ...
		Ransom E. Olds was also a pioneer in the automotive industry.
		The certificate is printed on REO Motor Car Company Letterhead, and is signed at the bottom of the front page by Olds as, "R.E. Olds." Olds was president of the company when he signed this document, due to the fact that he had left his own company after a quarrel with his business partner.
		The document is in good condition, with only the slight issue of the cancellation stamp affecting the middle part of the signature.
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	1927 Reo Flying Cloud
		Ransom Olds, son of the owner of one of the turn of the 19th century's largest manufacturers of gasoline engines, organized the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Detroit in 1897.
		Reo produced cars until 1936 when due to serious financial problems, the company totally abandoned automobile manufacturing.
		Ransom Olds' contributions to the automobile industry cannot be overestimated.
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	"Oldsmar: the Town that Ransom E. Olds Built" by Judy Dixon
		Olds used this to his advantage and modeled his city after Washington, D. C., patterning it with the middle class in mind.
		Olds realized that his dream of a city of 100,000 was not going to materialize.
		REO was a great place to work as it had a sense of family.
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	GM - Corporate Info - History - 1900 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Inc., the oldest unit of General Motors Corporation, is organized by Ransom E. Olds with capital of $50,000 (5,000 shares of stock at $10 per share) and the first Oldsmobile is produced.
		The first factory specifically for automobile manufacture in the United States is built by Olds in Detroit on Jefferson Avenue East.
		Under Billy Durant's leadership, General Motors Company is organized in 1908 (Sept 16), incorporating the Buick Motor Company.
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	Ransom E. Olds Article, RansomOlds Information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ransom E. Olds left his company in 1904 and went on to form the REO MotorCompany,using the initials of his name as an acronym.
		The Olds company wasbought by General Motors in 1908 and formed the basis of the Oldsmobile.
		Therefore, Ransom E. Olds had nothingin common with General Motors; he served as president (until 1925) and later chairman of REO.
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		Mr Olds was also involved in the organization of the Michigan Screw Company and Atlas Drop Forge Company, all located in Lansing, MI.
		Olds was the primary financier the Olds Tower.
		Mr Olds was also involved in the Hotel Olds located at 111 S Capitol Ave in Lansing.
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	Business: Oldsmar ambitions a dud for founder
		Olds convinced several employers to come to town, but instead of his hoped-for population of 100,000, there were just 200 people there when he sold off his properties by 1935, losing about $3-million in the process.
		Olds' dreams crashed when a bridge across Tampa Bay took travelers on a different route between Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, and when a destructive hurricane hit in 1921.
		Olds financed the deal but with a key caveat: He got the Lister family's valuable Lake Kissimmee land as collateral.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121300/Business/Oldsmar_ambitions_a_d.shtml (604 words)

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		Ransom E. Olds was the founder and head of the Olds Motor Works and built the first factory to use an assembly line manufacturing process.
		Olds focused on this one vehicle to manufacture in his plant.
		Olds is considered by many to be the founder of the automobile industry.
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	Dead at 106: Oldsmobile, the nation's oldest car company - Apr. 29, 2004
		Olds says it was the first company to mass-produce cars -- not Ford -- and that it pioneered the use of chrome and automatic transmissions in American cars.
		Ransom E. Olds had left the company four years before that, dismayed that the company was turning toward manufacturing high-end cars in contrast to his own vision of building inexpensive cars for the masses, said Bob Casey, transportation curator for the Henry Ford Museum.
		Olds claims to be the first company to mass produce gasoline-powered automobiles, something that is often credited to Ford Motor Co. Ford (F: Research, Estimates) takes credit for having the first moving assembly line in 1913.
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	AmericanHeritage.com / Death of a Marque
		Ransom, the youngest of five children, signed up for a six-month course at a local business college and took over the bookkeeping chores.
		Ransom Olds was a consummate linkerer and doubtless spent much time in the shop itself, working on various devices.
		Ransom Olds went on to build the Reo, a car named for his initials that was manufactured into the 1930s, and never again had anything to do with the Oldsmobile.
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	Oldsmobile Regency
		Oldsmobile (or Olds) was a brand of automobile produced in the United States from 1897 to 2004.
		Oldsmobiles were first manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan, a company founded by Ransom E.Olds in 1897.
		Ransom Olds left the company in financial difficultiesand formed REO Motor Car Company.
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	Oldsmobile Antique, Vintage and Classic Cars For Sale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		History: Oldsmobile (or Olds + Mobile) was a brand of automobile founded by Ransom E. Olds, and was produced in the United States from 1897 to 2004.
		Ransom Olds left the company in financial difficulties and formed REO Motor Car Company.
		While Olds only sold 725 Limited models in its three years of production, the car is best remembered for winning a race against the famed 20th Century Limited locomotive, an event immortalized in the painting “Setting the Pace” by William Harnden Foster.
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	MHAL - Olds Mansion
		This blueprint - by famed Lansing architect Darius B. Moon - is to the residence of Ransom E. Olds, father of the Oldsmobile.
		Ransom and Metta Olds' house, completed by 1904, was located in Lansing, at the corner of South Washington Avenue and Main Street.
		Ransom Olds biographer George S. May described it as "typical of the homes of the well-to-do being constructed during the Victorian Era.
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	Oldsmobile Toronado - Modern Racer - Modern Classics
		My bet is that if they were around to hear that news, Ransom E. Olds, who gave the marque its name and fame, and William Crapo "Billy" Durant, who helped make the brand a key link in the General Motors chain, would be angry but not surprised.
		In 1937 Olds was the first to introduce the "Automatic Safety Transmission," one of the first workable systems to do away with the tedious chore of manual gear changing.
		The Olds "Rocket" V-8 was a sensation in the marketplace, and it turned Oldsmobile into one of the early leaders on the NASCAR Grand National racing circuit.
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		Ransom E. Olds: Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864—August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automobile industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and Reo brands were named.
		Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio, the son of flsmith Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah Whipple Olds, moving later to Lansing, Michigan.
		Olds and Smith clashed frequently until Smith removed Olds from the position of vice president and general manager in 1904 and Ransom E. Olds left his company.
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	MHAL - Ransom Olds' Second Child
		Olds couldn't use his name for his new company, so instead he used his initials: REO.
		In 1910, Reo purchased Lansing's now-idle Bement and Sons factory, where agricultural implements were once produced.
		In 1967, it merged with Diamond T Trucks, becoming "Diamond Reo." Eight years later, in 1975, Diamond Reo declared bankrupty, and the company was no more.
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	Remarkable Ohio : Marker Details
		Ransom E. Olds was born on this property on June 3, 1864.
		Olds co-founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, forerunner of the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors in Lansing, Michigan, on August 21, 1897.
		Pliny and Sarah Olds purchased this property with a home on it for $750 on June 13, 1863, a year before the birth of their fifth and last child, Ransom.
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