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General Motors South Africa (Pty) Ltd , or GMSA, was a wholly owned subsidiary of American automobile manufacturer General Motors. It manufactured and distributed automobiles under the Chevrolet, Opel and Isuzu brands. [1] [2] [3] The deal with Isuzu was approved by the Competition Commission on 27 November 2017. [4]
The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. Following its third season, 1948–49, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to form the National Basketball Association (NBA). [1]
The 1949 BAA Finals was the championship round following the Basketball Association of America (BAA)'s 1948–49 season, its third and last. Later that year, the BAA and National Basketball League merged to create the National Basketball Association (NBA). 6'10" George Mikan and the Minneapolis Lakers proved dominant.
Anderson, Sheboygan, and Waterloo joined the National Professional Basketball League in 1950. The NBL also created the Indianapolis Olympians for the 1949–50 NBL season. When the NBL and BAA merged, this team joined the NBA without playing a single NBL game. Also still surviving are the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, the initial NBL champion in ...
Apple released the iPad 2. Toshiba announces the Toshiba Tablet, a 10-inch tablet powered by a Tegra 2 process and Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) [126] HP releases the HP TouchPad with webOS & withdraws it in August 2011 (a month later). Amazon announced an Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire, in September. Barnes & Noble introduces Nook Tablet in ...
The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America.The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament (the 1947 BAA Playoffs) at its conclusion, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals.
The Chevrolet Corvair was assembled at Willow Run during the car's entire 10-year production run. On May 14, 1969, the media was invited to Willow Run as the last Corvair came down the line; a departure from GM's policy of not permitting reporters to visit their manufacturing facilities. (this should all be re-written for more accuracy.)
The company began as the Rochester Coil Company founded by Edward A. Halbleib in 1908, [2] becoming the North East Electric Company the following year. In 1916 the company was located at 348 Whitney Street, Rochester. [3] In 1929 Alfred P. Sloan announced the acquisition of the company on behalf of General Motors. [4] "For some years this ...