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  1. The REO Motor Car Company was a company based in Lansing, Michigan, which produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point, the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms. Ransom E. Olds was an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies in the automobile industry.

  2. May 10, 2021 · The Birth of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. In 1897, Ransom E. Olds teamed up with Edward W. Sparrow to create the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, under which he planned to design and manufacture his own vehicles. This plan changed slightly in 1899, when local copper and lumbar big wig Samuel L. Smith purchased the company and moved it to Detroit.

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  4. The Patriarch of Mass Production. Ransom Olds was one of the first mass-producers of automobiles and inspired an entire generation to explore the possibilities of the emerging auto industry. Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio in 1864 and raised in Lansing, Michigan. He spent his childhood tinkering with all types of engines and built a variety of ...

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  6. It is dedicated to Ransom Eli Olds, a Lansing inventor, entrepreneur, financier, and one of Lansing’s most notable automotive leaders. Olds created the principle of the assembly line in the automobile industry and founded two local automobile companies: Olds Motor Works (1897) and REO Motor Car Company (1904).

  7. Ransom E. Olds (1864-1950) was an automotive industry pioneer whose company developed, manufactured, and sold one of the first affordable cars in mass production in the United States.

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