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Walter
Marr
and Thomas Buick
Buick’s chief engineer, Walter
L.
Man (left), and
Thomas D. Buick, son of founder~David Dunbar Buick,
drove thg fist Flin$:Buibk in a successful Flint-Detroit
round trkp in July
iP04.
David Buick was building gasoline engines by 1899,
and
Mak,
his~engineer, apparently built the first auto to
be called& Buick
in
1900.
However, Buick traditionally
dates its ‘beginnings to 1903. That was the year
the
company was reoiganized, refinanced and moved
from
Detroit to
Flint.
Buick has always been a product
innovator. Buick engineers developed the
“valve-in-head” engine, a light, powerful and reliable
engine which would eventually influence the entire
automotive industry.
William
C.
Durant was instrumental in promoting
Buicks across the country using,
his
Durant-Dort
Carriage
Co.
outlets and salespeople as the nucleus
of
a
giant distribution system. He knew the hick as a
‘,‘self-seller.”
If
automobiles could be this good, he
thought, maybe it was time to switch from the horse and
buggy business to automobiles.
At the
1905
New York
Auto
Show,
Durant took
orders for
1,000
Buicks
before
the
company had
built
40.
On Buick’s
success, Dufmt created a
holding company,
.September
16,
1908. He
called it General Motors.
William
C.
(Billy) Durant
iv
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