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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Crapo Durant put together a half-dozen automobile companies, called them General Motors Co. of New Jersey. Three years later he was ousted from control. He immediately formed Chevrolet Company and by May 1916 was able to tell G. M. directors that once again he was in control. Five years later he was forced to tender his resignation. The greatest bull since Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was broke and jobless...
...Lansing, Mich., William Crapo Durant recently startled citizens by appearing in a Mathis, small French car.* Last week he announced the resignations of the chairman, president, vice president of Durant Motors, Inc., as part of a complete reorganization. He then told of "prominent European motor car interests becoming intimately associated with Durant Motors ... a deal which will affect Lansing most favorably and be of great importance to the automobile industry as a whole...
Because of Mr. Durant's imported car, an inference seemed obvious. The Mathis has 9 to 12 h.p., sells at around $1,600. Regarding another intrusion, Argus, Paris automobile paper, last week was very definite. According to Argus, Ford Motor Car Co. will soon be manufacturing Isotta Fraschinis in Detroit, while Fords will pour in great volume from Isotta's Italian factories. To handle the plan, a new $5,000,000 company is said to have been formed in Italy, 51% owned by Isotta Fraschini Co. and the Italian Commercial Bank, 49% by Ford. In this exchange...
Killed. Edwin Jones Clapp, 48, publicity director for Motormaker William Crapo Durant, onetime Hearst financial editor, onetime professor of economics at New York University, onetime (1901, 1903-4) holder of the intercollegiate record for 120-yd. high hurdles; when he jumped from the roof of his hotel in Manhattan...
...will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan, $725, F. O. B. Detroit...