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The Duesenberg brothers left the company when the Maytags controlled it but retained the Mason name for racing cars they built. By 1913, they were in St. Paul, Minnesota where they established the Duesenberg Motor Company. [1] Edward Mason regained control of the company by 1912 from Galloway and Maytag interests and reorganized as Mason Motor ...
The two-cylinder engine car continued to be called the Mason. [1] Large parts purchases did not match slowing sales and the company went into receivership in 1911. [1] Maytag sold his interest in the company, and in 1912 the company was reorganized as Mason Motor Company. [1] This company went into receivership in 1915 and was closed down by 1917.
Mason became CEO and president of the new company, and Hudson's president A.E. Barit retired to become an American Motors board member. Mason selected long-time Nash associate and future governor of Michigan, George W. Romney, as vice president. Roy Abernethy, ex-vice president of sales for Willys, was hired to be vice president of sales.
White Motor Company; Willys; Willys-Knight; Winton Motor Carriage Company; Workhorse Group; Y. Yale (automobile)
Preston Tucker was born on September 21, 1903, on a peppermint farm near Capac, Michigan.His father was a railroad engineer named Shirl Harvey Tucker (1880-1907), and his mother was Lucille Caroline (née Preston) Tucker (1881-1960).
Arthur C. Mason, previously manager of the Buick engine plant in conjunction with Charles Byrne, Charles E. Wetherald and Durant set up his Mason Motor Co in 1911 to make Chevrolet engines for Durant's new Chevrolet enterprise and first occupied a Flint Wagon Works building before moving to the old Buick building. [3] See Mason Truck
Platted in 1855, Mason City is a commercial and industrial center for north central Iowa. It was also a railroad center, but the tracks bypassed the central business district in order to serve the industries located on the north side of town and the wholesale enterprises on the south side. Central Park, a public square, was part of the city's ...
Gordon Miller Buehrig was born in Mason City, Illinois ... He joined the Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn ... he produced the design for the Buehrig motor car, a ...