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Schneider founded Schneider National in 1935 after selling his family car to buy a truck. In 1938, Schneider converted a horse stable into a storage and transfer service which he dropped in 1944. Schneider had a son Don who was born in 1935. Don joined the company in 1961.
One of the largest fire apparatus companies in the US, it was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto Body Works Inc., and concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the Ford Model T. The first production facility was designed in 1917 and enlarged in 1918 by architect Wallace W. DeLong. [2]
Janesville Assembly's chimney. Janesville Assembly Plant was a former automobile factory owned by General Motors located in Janesville, Wisconsin.Opened in 1919, it was the oldest operating GM plant when it was largely idled in December 2008, and ceased all remaining production on April 23, 2009.
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In 1926, the Grand Rapids was built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The ship was similar to Pere Marquette Railway's car ferries the Pere Marquette No.21 and Pere Marquette No.22 and the Ann Arbor Railroad's Ann Arbor No 7. Another ship, the Madison was built in Manitowoc in 1927. On October 22, 1929, the ferry SS Milwaukee sank.
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Earl Scheib Auto Painting sign, Olympic Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, 1991 Founded by Earl Scheib (February 28, 1908 – February 29, 1992) [2] in Los Angeles in 1937, [3] the company grew quickly following World War II and by 1975 had branches in Germany and England, all company-owned, with Scheib manufacturing his own paint through a wholly owned subsidiary.