Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods...
...Durant, reared in Michigan although born in Boston, was seemingly a man beaten financially. That year he was forced out of his controlling interests in the General Motors Co. and the Chevrolet Motors Co. The former he had organized in 1908, three years after he had organized the Buick Motor Car Co. Between 1908 and 1909 he bought the Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmobile and Northway motor companies; in 1915 got control of General Motors and also organized the Chevrolet Co. All these he lost at a swoop in 1920. But the very next year he rebounded by organizing Durant Motors...
...Buick Motor...
Ajax Auburn Buick Cadillac Case Chandler Chevrolet Chrysler Cleveland Davis Diana Dodge DuPont Elcar Essex Flint Franklin Gardner Gray Hudson Hupmobile Jewett Jordan Junior Eight Kissel Lexington Lincoln Locomobile McFarlan Marmon Moon Nash Oakland Oldsmobile Overland Packard Paige Peerless Pierce-Arrow Pontiac Reo Rickenbacker Roamer Star Stearns Studebaker Stutz Velie Wills-Ste. Claire Willys-Knight...
MAKER 1925 1926 Dodge .............................. 275,000 375,000 Hudson ............................ 275,000 450,000 Buick ................................ 185,000 200,000 Chrysler .......................... 146,000 250,000 Willys-Overland .......... 239,000 330,000 Chevrolet ........................ 490,000 660,000 Total...