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To: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>,
Subject: Re: [Re: Picking Nits Big Time]
From: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
Date: 18 Sep 2001 21:48:36 EDT
One of the things Durant got was the NAME.  Mr Olds could not build a car with
the "Olds" name, so he used his initials.  Same thing happened to Albert
Champion-he lost his spark plug company and the use of his own name-so he
started "AC".

Jan Eyerman (still own the name, I don't think anyone else would want it)





Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:
At 04:59 PM 9/18/01 -0500, Bill Blue wrote:
>This is a pick on the minor nit:  I believe his name was Ransome (not
>Raymond) and he never produced Olds for GM.  He made his own car (the curved
>dash Olds), which was bought out by Billy Durant (made the Buick).  Durant
>called the resulting company General Motors.  Olds then went on to produce
>the REO cars and trucks.
>Bill

Thanks!  I believe you ARE right!  There were some corporate shenanigans
which forced Olds out of the GM structure, but my law-school corporate-law
class was more than two decades back and I forget the details;  I only know
that Durant won and Olds lost.

Marc

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