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[2]: 26 Demand became so strong – 9,000 cars in its first year [4] – that the company opened an extra factory 60 miles (100 kilometres) to the south of Flint, adjacent to Detroit at Windsor, in the Canadian province of Ontario. In 1917, three more models were introduced: the Cloverleaf roadster [note 2] and two sedan (closed-in) models.
[1] [2] [3] It is located at 303 West Water Street in Flint, Michigan, in the Carriage Town neighborhood north of downtown, across the street from the Durant-Dort Carriage Company Office. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] William C. Durant and Josiah Dallas Dort leased the factory for $25 a month in 1886 and renamed it the Durant-Dort Carriage Factory after ...
Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film directed by Flint area native Michael Moore. Moore portrays the regional economic impact of General Motors CEO Roger Smith's action of closing several auto plants in his hometown of Flint, Michigan—reducing GM's employees in that area from 80,000 in 1978 to about 50,000 in 1992.
Canadian-born William A. Paterson set up the W. A. Paterson Company in Flint in 1869 to make carriages, and by 1900 he was producing some 30,000 yearly. Even though he entered the automobile field later than many of his fellow carriage makers, he was totally committed to the enterprise, and manufactured a well-built automobile.
The Paterson Building is a historic structure located at 653 South Saginaw Street and Third Street in Flint, Michigan. It was built by William A. Paterson of the W. A. Paterson Company who first built carriages there starting in 1869. He switched to manufacturing automobiles in 1909, and the company built well-regarded automobiles until 1923. [1]
A Flint Wagon Works carriage c.1908. Their business became the second of Flint's "Big Three" wagon builders following William A. Paterson's founded by Paterson in 1869. The third new business was founded in the mid 1880s, William C. Durant's Flint Road Cart Company later renamed Durant-Dort Carriage Company. [3]
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