Walter Marr
and
Thomas
Buick
Buick’s chief engineer, Walter
L.
Marr
(left), and
Thomas
D.
Buick,
son
of founder David Dunbar Buick,
drove the first Flint Buick in a successful Flint-Detroit
round trip in July 1904.
David Buick was building gasoline engines by 1899,
and
Mar,
his engineer, apparently built the first auto to
be called a Buick in 1900. However, Buick traditionally
dates its beginnings to 1903, That
was
the year the
William
C.
(Billy)
Durant
company was reorganized, refinanced and moved from
Detroit
to
Flint. Buick has always been a product
innovator. Buick engineers developed the
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