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Nov 13, 2009 · On September 16, 1908, Buick Motor Company head William Crapo Durant spends $2,000 to incorporate General Motors in New Jersey. Durant, a high-school dropout, had made his fortune building horse ...
William C. Durant. William Crapo Durant (December 8, 1861 – March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry and co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple marques – each seemingly independent, with different automobile lines – bound under a unified ...
William Crapo "Billy" Durant (December 8, 1861–March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars.
Books. The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors. Bernard A. Weisberger. Little, Brown, 1979 - Automobile industry and trade - 396 pages. A biography of William Durant, the daring entrepreneur who bought the faltering Buick Motor Company and co-founded General Motors Company before his financial gambles lost him the ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Thomas C. Durant was born on February 6, 1820, in Lee, Massachusetts, USA. His parents were Thomas Durant and Sybil Durant, and he had at least two brothers, Charles Wright Durant and William F. Durant. He attended Albany Medical College and graduated cum laude in 1840 with a medical degree. However, he soon quit the field of medicine and ...
William C. Durant (1861–1947) co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet. He was a leading pioneer of the US automobile industry, who created a unified corporate holding company. Durant partnered with Josiah Dallas Dort in 1886, founding Flint Road Cart Company. By 1890, it had become a leading manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles. Durant was highly skeptical of automobiles at first, but he saw ...
William West Durant. William West Durant (1850–1934) was a designer and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style, including Camp Uncas, Camp Pine Knot and Great Camp Sagamore which are National Historic Landmarks. He was the son of Thomas C. Durant, the financier and railroad promoter who was behind the Crédit Mobilier scandal .
