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motorcar. Charles W. Nash – executive of Durant-Dort Carriage Company, became president of Buick and General Motors. Established the Nash Motor Company. James W. Packard – designed and introduced the Packard in 1899 in Warren, Ohio. The Packard became the American luxury car between the two World Wars. It was sold for 59 years from 1899 to 1958 C. Harold Wills – engineer and designer who worked with Henry Ford to develop the Model T. He urged the use of lighter steel alloys in making cars. He created the Willis-St. Clair car, one of the luxury cars of the 1920?s. John N. Willys – founded and ran the Willys Overland Company for twenty years. He sold more cars in competition with the Model T than any other company. Alexander Winton – designed and produced the third

successful internal combustion motor car . The Winton was the first luxury car to be produced in the US before World War I. It was produced from 1896 to 1925. From Horse to Horsepower is an appropriate name for this era. In 1865, the common method of transportation was the horse and buggy. By 1908, it was apparent that the automobile was the transportation of the future. The automobile had radically changed America, and has become a symbol of modern times. Today over seven million automobiles are produced in the U.S. as well as over three million trucks and buses. The automobile industry is the leading manufacturing industry in the Unites States and is the primary customer of many other industries. For instance the auto industry buys 15% of all steel, 62% of all lead, and 65% of

all the rubber manufactured and processed in the United States. About thirteen million Americans are employed by the auto industry and related businesses. The automobile has a spawned many other industries and created millions of other jobs. Examples are the Federal Highway Systems, state and local road systems and the workers who care for these roads. A familiar example of a small business developed because of the automobile is snow plowing, a very lucrative part time occupation in this part of the United States. All this is the result of the ingenuity and creativity of the turn of the century automotive pioneers. Bibliography 1) Berkebile, Donald & Oliver, Smith The Smithsonian Collection of Automobiles and Motorcycles, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968 2)

Burness, Tad, The Auto Album, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. 3) Crabb, Richard, Birth of a Giant, New York: Chilton Book Company, 1969 4) Hill, Frank The Automobile How it Came, Grew, and Has Changed Our Lives, New York: Dodd, Mead and co., 1967. 5) Hendry, P.G. Vintage and Veteran Cars, New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc,1974 6) Ludvigsen, Karl & Wise, David The Encyclopedia of the American Automobile Secaucus,, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1977. 7) Pettifer, Julian & Turner, Nigel Automania, Great Britain: Little, Brown & Company, 1984. 8) Sedgewick, James Early Cars London: Octopus Publishing, 1962. 9) The World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1997 *Picture of Model T Ford from Vintage and Veteran Cars by P.G. Hendry. 34d