I should hope that I am right! I caught a little piece about Durant on The
History Channel this past wekend. Cheating ALWAYS helps.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: "Bill Blue" <dablue@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Jarrid Gross" <JGross@econolite.com>; <bmounce@bellatlantic.net>; "Ben
Mies" <bmtbm1@mindspring.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Picking Nits Big Time
> At 04:59 PM 9/18/01 -0500, Bill Blue wrote:
> >This is a pick on the minor nit: I believe his name was Ransome (not
> >Raymond) and he never produced Olds for GM. He made his own car (the
curved
> >dash Olds), which was bought out by Billy Durant (made the Buick).
Durant
> >called the resulting company General Motors. Olds then went on to
produce
> >the REO cars and trucks.
> >Bill
>
> Thanks! I believe you ARE right! There were some corporate shenanigans
> which forced Olds out of the GM structure, but my law-school corporate-law
> class was more than two decades back and I forget the details; I only
know
> that Durant won and Olds lost.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
> Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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