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LaSalle was an American brand of luxury automobiles manufactured and marketed, as a separate brand, by General Motors' Cadillac division from 1927 through 1940. Alfred P. Sloan, GM's Chairman of the Board, developed the concept for four new GM marques - LaSalle, Marquette, Viking and Pontiac - paired with already established brands to fill price gaps he perceived in the General Motors product ...
Fisher hired Earl in spring 1926 to design a sleek low-priced vehicle to be introduced by Cadillac in 1927 known as the LaSalle. [26] Sloan was sufficiently impressed by the result that he made Earl head of a special design division of GM, established in June 1927. [26] The LaSalle itself was introduced in March 1927 for the 1927 model year. [27]
It was upgraded to the Series 62 in 1940 only to return to production in model year 1941, replacing the cancelled LaSalle Series 50. While production was suspended from model years 1943–1945 due to World War II, it remained as the junior level product line until 1951.
Jean Lassale was a Swiss watch company that designed the Calibre 1200, featuring the thinnest mechanical watch movement: 1.2 mm. [1] In the 1970s, Pierre Mathys, [2] master watchmaker in La Chaux-de-Fonds, designed and built the prototype of a revolutionary watch caliber, with the goal of making the thinnest watch in the world.
Harley Jarvis Earl (November 22, 1893 – April 10, 1969) was an American automotive designer and business executive. He was the initial designated head of design at General Motors, later becoming vice president, the first top executive ever appointed in design of a major corporation in American history.
Or, as Rosa Luxemburg put it: "what Lassalle managed to wrestle from history in two years of flaming agitation needed many decades to come about." Ferdinand Lassalle is buried in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), in the Old Jewish Cemetery.
The first cars to use Thompson's synchromesh transmission design were Cadillac and LaSalle models in 1928, followed by Oldsmobile, Buick, and Oakland models in 1931, and Chevrolet cars in 1932. [6] Thompson sold his synchromesh transmission patents to GM in 1924 [ 7 ] and 1930 for a reported $1 million.
The LaSalle Speedway has hosted great touring organizations including the World of Outlaw Sprint Car Series, AMA, ARCA Truck Series, and several Dirt Late Model events such as UMP, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, and the World of Outlaws Late Model Series. The past 2 years the LaSalle Speedway has also been host to the IMCA One Night Stand ...