Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production, to 1,500 cars a day. Hudson goes even further, planning a 100% increase, to 2,000 cars a day. Similarly, output capacity per day is being arranged by Buick for 750 cars, by Chrysler for 800 to 1,000, by Willys-Overland for 1,100, and by Chevrolet for 2,200. These of course are maximum figures. Yet estimates of 1926 car production call for a 40% increase over 1925 for these six popular makers, as follows...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...This Chevrolet had already demonstrated its superiority as a sprinter in eight heats against some half-dozen higher priced 4-cylinder cars...
...size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said Dr. T. A. Boyd, General Motors Research Department...
General Motors already manufactures most types of motor vehicles: the Cadillac, Buick, Overland, Oldsmobile. Chevrolet, G. M. C. trucks. Taxicabs and motorbusses have only to be added...