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Olds’s new company soon experienced financial problems, but with funding from Michigan lumber magnate Samuel Smith he reorganized as Olds Motor Works in 1899. Several experimental models were made before fire levelled the plant in 1901. The only vehicle saved was a small curved dash runabout.
The company was soon back in business, now in Lansing, Michigan, building the only thing it had, Curved Dashes. They were capable, inexpensive little machines, so popular they became world’s the first mass produced car.
Unfortunately, Olds and Smith disagreed. Olds favoured entry level cars like the Curved Dash while Smith wanted heavier, more luxurious vehicles. Unable to reconcile, Olds left the company in 1904.
UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees
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Nearly 3,000 workers at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia will be voting this Sunday on a six-year labor agreement backed by the United Auto Workers union. Rank-and-file workers are actively opposing the deal, which is only a slightly modified version of a previous UAW-backed deal workers decisively rejected last month.
There are many elements of the proposed agreement that have enraged workers. Over the last three contracts, the Swedish multinational and the UAW have pointed to supposed economic difficulties to justify demands for concessions, including the introduction of a multitier wage and benefit system that condemns young workers to inferior pay and denies them fully paid pension benefits.
Director Marquette Williams, who grew up in Cleveland and moved back to Ohio from California last year, is planning a 150,000-square-foot film and television studio on the city's East Side.
Presidential limos have become much more specialized since President Taft introduced cars to the White House.
Following his 1909 inauguration, President William Howard Taft replaced the White House stables with a four-car garage, filling it with a pair of Pierce-Arrow luxury cars, a Baker electric car that was reportedly favored by his wife, and a White Motor Co. Steamer.
The White proved to be the publicity-shy Taft’s preferred ride after he discovered the tactic of deploying vented steam to obscure photographers’ attempts to shoot pictures of the president. Taft’s predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, also had an earlier, personally owed White Steamer, though he may not have used its steam to hide from photographers.