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Discount Tire Company was founded by Bruce Halle as a tire shop in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Halle had taken out a $400 loan to open the store, originally having six tires from a previous failed automotive supply company.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
A 1956 Suburban can be discerned from a 1955 Suburban by the grille center section - 1955 models had a ribbed center section, with a chrome V badge on the hood identifying a V8 engine. The V was moved down into the grille center for 1956 models and block P-L-Y-M-O-U-T-H lettering appeared on the hood front. The 1956 tail lamps were larger.
The company incorporated as Cushman Motor Works in 1913. [1] Cushman began production of their four-stroke Husky engine in 1922. [2] Cushman produced engines for farm equipment, pumps, lawn mowers, and boats. Cushman began making Auto-Glide scooters in 1936 as a means to increase the sale of Husky engines during the Great Depression. [3]
June 1 – Jesse H. Jones, entrepreneur, 9th United States Secretary of Commerce (born 1874) June 2 – Richard S. Edwards, admiral (born 1885) June 4 – Katherine MacDonald, silent film actress (born 1891) June 6 Hiram Bingham III, explorer, discoverer of Machu Picchu (born 1875) Margaret Wycherly, English actress (born 1881)
DeSoto-Plymouth dealer on 815 Penn Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, c. 1945 Chrysler's dealer network also had an effect on the termination of the DeSoto brand. Following World War II , Chrysler had a large number of dealers that carried two or more Chrysler makes, with DeSoto-Plymouth and Chrysler–Plymouth relationships being the most common.
In 1952, the Meadowbrook made up 32.50% of Dodge's sales (circa 84,000). With Chrysler being entirely focussed on the Korean War effort, the 1952s received almost no changes - modifications being limited to details such as a red reflector dot beneath the taillights and lightly redesigned hubcaps. [8] The 1952s were introduced on 10 November ...
AZP S-60 (Russian: Автоматическая зенитная пушка С-60, abbrev. АЗП (AZP); literally: Automatic anti-aircraft gun S-60 ) is a Soviet towed, road-transportable, short- to medium-range, single-barrel anti-aircraft gun from the 1950s.