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Share of the Nash Motors Company, issued 2 June 1919. Nash Motors Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin from 1916 until 1937. From 1937 through 1954, Nash Motors was the automotive division of Nash-Kelvinator.
For more fun auto trivia, please sign up for our free newsletters. Flickr. 1952 Dodge Power Wagon. Introduced: 1946. The Power Wagon might be Dodge’s most iconic contribution to the world of ...
Once the police and taxi car of choice, it was also one of the last cars longer than 18 feet well after multiple oil crises. In 1980, it measured 221.5 inches and its 5.9-liter V8 engine was ...
For more great auto trivia stories, please sign up for our free newsletters. ... but Kaiser-Frazer bought Willys in 1953 and the last Willys passenger car rolled off the lines two years later ...
The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313245589. Black, Edwin (2006). Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312359089. Clarke, Sally H. (2007).
The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann of Nuremberg formed S. Bettmann & Co. and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them under his own trade name in London.
Karl Benz's vehicle was the first true automobile, entirely designed as such, rather than simply being a motorized stage coach or horse carriage. This is why he was granted his patent, and is regarded as its inventor. His wife and sons became the first true motorists, in 1889, when they took the car out for the specific task of paying a family ...
The wheelbase of an American-market car would be written as "116 in (2,946 mm)", while the wheelbase of a car from a metric country would be written as "2,946 mm (116.0 in)". General conventions for units: We use the standard International System of Units (SI) describing automobiles, and will generally follow the SI writing style.