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The end of World War I saw the rise in the economic power of the United States due to its active trade, growing industry, and support of the Allied nations in the war. Its supplying of agricultural and manufactured goods to the Allied nations greatly boosted its economy, while the economies of Germany, France, and Great Britain suffered from major decreases in export trade activity and from ...
2008–2012 Tesla Roadster—first highway-capable all-electric vehicle in serial production for sale in the US in the modern era. It sold about 2,500 units worldwide. 2008–2013 BYD F3DM—first highway-capable series production plugin hybrid, launched in China in December 2008, sold over 2,300 units. [75] [76]
The company responded to the increasing number of low-priced cars—including the $600 Ford Model N, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout at $650, [7] the $485 Brush Runabout, [8] the Black at $375, [9] the $500 Western Gale Model A, [10] and the bargain-basement Success an amazingly low $250 [7] —by introducing the Model 25, their cheapest four yet. [11]
M. Marks-Moir car; Marlborough (Anglo-French car) Marlborough-Thomas; Marmon Motor Car Company; Marquette (automobile) Martin Wasp; Maserati Tipo V4; Maxwell Motor Company
Du Pont later removed Durant from management in 1920, and various Du Pont interests held large or controlling GM shareholdings until about 1950. In 1918, GM acquired the Chevrolet stock from McLaughlin Motor Car Company of Oshawa, Ontario , Canada, manufacturer of the McLaughlin automobile since 1907 (later to be renamed McLaughlin-Buick) as ...
Ford Motor Company automobile assembly line in the 1920s The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling car of all-time. Large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable cars was started by Ransom Olds in 1901 at his Oldsmobile factory in Lansing, Michigan , and based upon stationary assembly line techniques pioneered by Marc Isambard Brunel at ...
Military vehicles introduced in the 1920s (26 P) Motorcycles introduced in the 1920s (30 P) S. 1920s ships (11 C)
Luella Bates was the first of six female employees of the Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. [2] chosen as test and demonstration drivers and worked as an FWD truck driver from 1918 to 1922. [3] During World War I she was a test driver traveling throughout the state of Wisconsin in a Model B truck. After the war, when the majority of the women working ...