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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 Marr, 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
company was reorganized, refinanced and moved
from
Detroit to Flint. Buick has always been a product
innovator. Buick engineers developed the
“valve-in-head” engine, a light, powerful and reliable
engine which would eventually influence the entire
automotive industry.
William
C.
Durant was instrumental in promoting
Buicks across the country using his Durant-Dort
Carriage
Co.
outlets and salespeople as the nucleus of a
giant distribution system. He knew the Buick as a
“self-seller”.
If
automobiles could be
this
good, he
thought, maybe it was time to switch from the horse and
buggy business to automobiles.
William
C.
(Billy) Durant
At the 1905, New York
Auto Show, Durant took
orders for 1,000 Buicks
before the company had
built
40.
On
Buick’s
success, Durant created
a
holding company,
September
16,
1908. He
called
it
General Motors.
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