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In addition, more roadways were paved to make transportation during the war more fast and efficient. As a result, ownership of cars decreased, and public transportation increased. People spent their savings on necessities rather than automotive products. After World War I, the purchase of cars increased once more as incomes and leisure time ...
American auto companies in the 1920s expected they would soon sell six million cars a year but did not do so until 1955. Numerous companies disappeared. [57] Between 1922 and 1925, the number of US passenger car builders decreased from 175 to 70. H. A.
S. Samson Tractor; Saxon Motor Car Company; Scripps-Booth; Secqueville-Hoyau; Severin Motor Car Company; Shawmobile; Sheridan (automobile) Simplic; Sizaire Frères
The Automobile industry, 1920–1980 (1989) online; Minchin, Timothy J. America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Rae, John B. The American automobile industry (1984), short scholarly survey online; Rae, John B. The road and the car in American life ...
Elwood Haynes (October 14, 1857 – April 13, 1925) was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist.He invented the metal alloy stellite and independently co-discovered martensitic stainless steel along with Englishman Harry Brearley in 1912 and designed one of the earliest automobiles made in the United States.
Packard Twin Six (1915-1920) 1916. Cadillac 341-B Imperial (1916-1924) Cadillac Type 53 (1916) Hudson Super Six (1916-1926, later reintroduced) 1917.
Delco was responsible for several innovations in automobile electric systems, including the first reliable battery ignition system and the first practical automobile self starter. In 1936, Delco began producing the first dashboard-installed car radios. By the early 1970s, Delco had become a major supplier of automotive electronics equipment.
Chrysler was founded by Walter Chrysler on June 6, 1925, [1] when the Maxwell Motor Company (est. 1904) was re-organized into the Chrysler Corporation. [2]Walter Chrysler had originally arrived at the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers company in the early 1920s, having been hired to take over and overhaul the company's troubled operations just after a similar rescue job at the Willys car company.