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    Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named...
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    platforms. Ransom E. Olds was an entrepreneur who founded multiple companies in the automobile industry. In 1897 Olds founded Oldsmobile. In 1905 Olds left...
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    the downtown area. It has been named the R.E. Olds Freeway (sometimes just Olds Freeway) for Ransom E. Olds, the founder of Oldsmobile and the REO Motor...
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    Oldsmobile (redirect from Olds Motor Works)
    existence by General Motors. Originally established as "Olds Motor Vehicle Company" by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, it produced over 35 million vehicles, including...
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  • conservationist Ransom E. Olds (1864–1950), American automotive industry pioneer, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named Ransom Riggs (born...
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    The R.E. Olds Transportation Museum is named for Ransom E. Olds, founder of Oldsmobile and REO, and is located in Lansing, Michigan. It is one of the...
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    000 were built in all. When General Motors assumed operations from Ransom E. Olds on November 12, 1908, GM introduced the Oldsmobile Model 20, which was...
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  • Zealand poet Ransom E. Olds (1864–1950), American automobile industry pioneer and namesake of the former Oldsmobile and REO brands Robert Olds (1896-1943)...
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    The Oldsmar name dates to April 12, 1916, when automobile pioneer Ransom E. Olds purchased 37,541 acres (151.92 km2) of land north of Tampa Bay to establish...
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    production of automobiles. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1897, and introduced the Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901. Olds pioneered the assembly line...
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    Division of the White Motor Corporation. Reo dated back to 1904 when Ransom E. Olds, founder of Oldsmobile, began building motor cars, and Diamond T dated...
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  • REO Motor Car Company, a defunct automobile manufacturer founded by Ransom E. Olds Royale Racing Cars, a defunct racecar constructor Stutz Royale, a limousine...
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    use in Nucor's steel mills. After REO Motor Car Company, founded by Ransom E. Olds, sold its operations and initiated liquidation proceedings, a group...
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    the sum of money involved in such a practice. When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French rançon from Latin redemptio, 'buying back'; compare...
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    transformation at the turn of the 20th century. Many individuals, including Ransom E. Olds, John and Horace Dodge, Henry Leland, David Dunbar Buick, Henry Joy...
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  • Company Carriage Works built the body for the first test car produced by Ransom E. Olds. Production ceased in 1904. The Deere-Clark company purchased the company's...
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    to 1905 when founder Ransom E. Olds started his new REO Motor Car Company, which would last in Lansing for another 70 years. Olds would be joined by the...
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  • In 1902, the brothers won a contract to produce transmissions for Ransom E. Olds' company, Oldsmobile upon which they built a solid reputation for quality...
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    playwright Muhsin Muhammad - NFL football star Ransom E. Olds - Automobile Manufacturer; founded Olds Motor Vehicle Company Larry Page - co-founder of...
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    Large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable cars was started by Ransom Olds in 1901 at his Oldsmobile factory in Lansing, Michigan, and based upon...
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    used as a community center for many years. The hotel was operated by Ransom E. Olds, inventor of the Oldsmobile, from 1926 until his death in 1950. The...
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  • Offenhauser Office Kitano – Takeshi Kitano Öhlins – Kenth Öhlins Oldsmobile – Ransom E. Olds Olin Corporation – Franklin W. Olin Olivetti – Camillo Olivetti Opel...
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    controlled heavier-than-air powered flight, and the automobile companies of Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford popularized the assembly line in the early 20th century...
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    the rest of the world only starting from the early 20th century when Ransom E. Olds began using the modern assembly line, which was later changed into a...
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    Although credit for the development of the assembly line belongs to Ransom E. Olds, with the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash...
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    Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (November 29, 1834 – October 29, 1864) was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union...
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    Along with mining, agriculture and logging became important industries. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in Lansing in 1897, and in 1899 Henry Ford built...
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    member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 99th district Ransom E. Olds, founder of the Oldsmobile car company "ArcGIS REST Services Directory"...
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    GM divisions. Lansing Car Assembly (LCA) began in 1901 when Ransom E. Olds moved his Olds Motor Works company to the city. He set up his plant on the...
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    George M. Holley, Charles B. King, Charles W. Nash, Barney Oldfield, Ransom E. Olds, and Alfred P. Sloan Jr. were selected. The organization moved to Washington...
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