1886 Olds Steam CarriageRansom E. Olds is considered by many to be the founder of the American automobile industry. His belief in a small affordable automobile led him to invent, develop, and manufacture the highly popular Oldsmobile Curved Dash and later the REO automobile and trucks. He produced an affordable car that he believed would change commerce and society alike. He insisted upon high quality components and for a number of years, limited car production versus selling a car that could not hold up to his standards. Olds wanted to bring the city and farm folks into each other’s world.
He was born Ransom Eli Olds on June 3, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio, the youngest of three sons of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah Whipple Olds. His father was a blacksmith and later became a store owner. When Olds was in his teens the family moved to Lansing, Michigan, where his father opened a forge and store ‘P.F. Olds and Son’. His older brother Wallace was half owner of the family business until Ransom bought him out. In 1886, Ransom began experimenting with a steam-powered engine. In 1886, he received his first patent for a gasoline-powered car, and founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company to manufacture it in 1897.
Olds sold his company in 1899 and relocated from Lansing to Detroit renaming his company the Olds Motor Works. In 1901 Ransom designed the legendary Curved Dash Oldsmobile which was the first commercially successful car mass-produced on an assembly line in the U.S. It sold for $650.00. This was the first factory to employ an assembly line process in a manufacturing environment.
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@2cv:Op maandag 28 juni 2010 17:17 schreef Paladijn het volgende:Met de hoeveelheid onzin die je verkondigd is het geen wonder dat je geen PTA-mod meer bent
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vorige deeltjes, statistieken, wie post er het meest enz enz
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dude? :') ik hoop voor je dat je niet serieus bent
Even voor jou: 2x1/2 = 1/2 x 1/2
[b]Neem mij niet tè serieus, dat doe ik zelf ook niet[/b]