General Motors
a photographic
$55.07
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1999
Summary
The General Motors Corporation was established in 1908 by William C. Durant, who combined the Buick, Oldsmobile, and Oakland companies and, later, Cadillac, to form GM. From the 1920s onwards, GM grew from a firm that accounted for about 10% of new car sales in the U.S. to become the largest producer of cars and trucks in the world. The peak of the company’s power and market dominance came in the 1960s, which proved to be the decade of change for the U.S. auto industry. With the introducti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780738500195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0738500194 |
| Series: | Images of Motoring |
| Author: | Michael W.R. Davis |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | NPI Media Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1999 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 165mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Michael W.R. Davis
Michael W.R. Davis, Yale alumnus and automotive historian, has covered the industry for 45 years as both journalist and public relations manager with the Ford Motor Company. Living in Detroit he experienced firsthand the small-town, one-industry bond, where the successes and failures of one could not help but affect the other. Mr. Davis served as corporate communications director of both the Detroit News and Evening News Association before becoming executive director of the Detroit Historical Society. General Motors: A Photographic History is to be the first in a series of three books with Arcadia Publishing documenting the rise, fall and survival of the three great American automobile manufacturers of our day.
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