San Francisco / Detroit / Owosso / Seattle / Oshawa / Pontiac / Chicago / Flint / Hutchinson / Stockton / New York City / New York / /
Company
Buick Motor Co. / General Motors Company / Rapid Motor Vehicle Company / GMT Corp. / Janesville (Wisconsin) Machine Co. / Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Co. / General Motors Truck Corporation / Grabowsky Power Wagon Co. / YT&CMC / W. W. Shaw Livery Co. / GMC / American Garment Cleaning Co. / Union Pacific / Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co. / Chevrolet Motor Company / Northway Motor & Manufacturing Co. / Carnation / Walden W. Shaw Livery Co. / Hendrickson Motor Truck Co. / Yellow Cab Co. / Yellow Cab Mfg. / GMTCorp / General Motors Truck Company / Reliance Motor Truck Company / Yellow Sleeve-Valve Engine Works / HP / Reliance Motor Co. / Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. / Glidden / W. W. Shaw Corp. / Randolph Motor Car Co. / Reliance Motor Car Co. / Goodrich / GM Truck Co. / The Rapid Motor Vehicle Co. / Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company / City Motor Cab Co. / Pontiac Motor Co. / Hertz / Ford / Randolph Motor Co. / Grabowsky Motor Vehicle Co. / General Motors Corporation / Deluxe / /
Country
Canada / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Name Change / Company Expansion / M&A / Reorganization / Employment Change / Person Travel / Product Release / /
Facility
Janesville plant / Reliance plant / Pancho Villa / Rapid Street complex / Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Co. plant / Rapid Street Plant / Northway plant / Wagon Works plant / GM Building / GMC Assembly Plant / After building / Detroit plant / Yellow Cab plant / building Rapid / East Moline IL plant / Fort St. East / Flint plant / GMC plant / /
IndustryTerm
hard rubber tires / heavy construction applications / engine tooling machinery / electric truck manufacturing / less oil / owned vehicle manufacturing / affiliated subsidiary / early site / oil lamps / sales subsidiary / manufacturing / Steel cabs / equipment replacing oil lamps / financial groups / manufacturing plant / advertising personnel / gravity flow fuel systems / passenger car part / manufacturing plants / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic Ocean / Flint / /
Organization
US War Department / TRUCK HISTORY CHAPTER / Distinguished Service / US Government / United States Army / /
Person
John M. Lansden / Eugene Goldman / D. Model / Barney Finn / Russell Crist / A. P. Sloan / Albert Marx / William Eaton / George A. Green / James Carry / Morris Grabowsky / D. E. Meyer / Frank Grogan / Carl J. Bock / Fred Paige / Max Grabowsky / William Warwick / Vance Day / John Hertz / Alfred P. Sloan Jr. / Harry Hamilton / W. C. Durant / T. P. Myers / A. G. North / R. A. Crist / Ralph E. Northway / Doug Ritter / L. Day / William C. Durant / /
Position
Vice President / Secretary / President and General Manager / Treasurer / driver / General Manager / Colonel / model / Board Chairman / cid L-head / Sales Manager / President / Chief Executive Officer / L-head / coach / Advertising Manager / a photographer / Chief Engineer / Vice President of Engineering / Chairman / Fisher / service manager / founder / /
THE FIRST CENTURY OF GMC TRUCK HISTORY COMPILED BY DONALD E. MEYER INTRODUCTION