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William Crapo Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, founder of General Motors and co-founder of Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple marques – each seemingly independent, with different automobile lines – bound under a unified corporate holding ...
Founded in 1908 as a holding company in Flint, Michigan, ... General Motors was capitalized by William C. Durant on September 16, 1908, as a holding company.
By 1900, William C. Durant's Durant-Dort Carriage Company of Flint, Michigan, had become the largest manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles in the United States. [15] Durant was averse to automobiles, but fellow Flint businessman James H. Whiting, owner of Flint Wagon Works, sold him the Buick Motor Company in 1904. [16]
Durant entered the auto industry with a solid record of transportation entrepreneurialism -- but of the wrong type: He had headed the William C. Durant founded General Motors on Sept. 16, 1908.
William C. Durant (1861–1947), industrialist and founder of General Motors Corporation William West Durant (1850–1934), architect and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style William A. Durant (1866–1948), American politician in Oklahoma
The Rapid Motor Vehicle Company was founded in 1902 in Pontiac, Michigan, by brothers Max (1874-1946) and Morris Grabowsky, whose earlier venture, Grabowsky Motor Company, had been founded in Detroit in 1900. [2] They went on to build one-ton trucks and were the beginning of GMC Truck division after they were acquired by General Motors in 1909. [3]
On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with his brother Arthur Chevrolet, William C. Durant, and investment partners William Little (maker of the Little automobile) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell, son-in-law of Durant and friend of Samuel McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Car Company of Canada Ltd. The company was ...
Durant co-founded a truck-making subsidiary, Mason Truck, and also acquired numerous ancillary companies to support Durant Motors.In 1927, the Durant line was shut down to retool for a brand-new, modernized car for 1928, re-emerging in 1928 with Durant, Locomobile, and Rugby lines in place, and dropping the Mason Truck and Flint automobile lines and the top-selling Star car in April 1928.