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The history of General Motors (GM), one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers, ... In the mid of the 1950s, GM withdrew from the Egyptian market.
The first automatic transmissions were developed by General Motors during the 1930s and introduced in the 1940 Oldsmobile as the "Hydra-Matic" transmission. [18] They were incorporated into GM-built tanks during WW-II and, after the war, GM marketed them as being "battle-tested". [ 18 ]
The General Motors Futurliner: A History; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IN-114, "GM Futurliner, 1000 Gordon M. Buehrig Place, Auburn, DeKalb County, IN", 5 photos, 1 color transparency, 28 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Share of the Northway Motors Corporation, issued 21. May 1920. When General Motors was created in 1908, it started out with Buick and soon after acquired Oldsmobile, Cadillac and Oakland. There were dozens of other smaller companies that William Durant acquired during his first employment term until he was let go due to financially ...
General Motors researched the feasibility of gas turbine engines in cars as early as the 1940s. It was not until the early 1950s that the company began building an actual engine, under the direction of Charles L. McCuen, general manager of General Motors Research Laboratories, [1] with Emmett Conklin leading the project.
The General Motors Motorama was an auto show staged by GM from 1949 to 1961. ... During the 1950 show, more than 320,000 visitors admired the Cadillac Debutante, ...
1950 1981 GM A GM B: 7 [n2 1] Chevy's mid-level full-size car for the 1950–1975 in US market and 1950–1981 for Canadian market 150: 1953 1957 GM A: 1 Fleet/economy version of the Bel Air 210: 1953 1957 GM A: 1 Midrange car, placed between the 150 and Bel Air Townsman: 1953 1972 GM B: 2 Bel Air-based mid level full-size wagon.
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.