Saginaw Street, main thoroughfare of Flint, Michigan, about 1903.
Modified "Sixty" Canstatt Mercedes of 1903 in Newport. Mercedes made the first real automobile, i.e. a car that was not a buggy, in 1901. It was also a racer and the first popular sports car, although the expression "sports car" was unknown. It cost $12,000.
Simplex (left), circa 1904, and chain-drive Locomobile, circa 1906, on a main highway.
Tire trouble on an Ohio road in 1907. Driver on right waits in a 45-hp Royal Tourist.
Weathering a blizzard in Times Square in early 1900s.
Model T in soft shoulder
Winshield, 1909.
The author's office at the Hyatt, 1912
Author (right) with advertising execuitive Harry Carroll, about 1915
Buick Motor Company group, about 1912. In front row center are Walter P. Chrysler and Charles W. Nash.
Louis Chevrolet.
Early Buick plant, Flint, Michigan.
General Motors Building, Detroit.
Edsel and Henry Ford, May 1927.
The author at a Senate hearing, 1939.
At shareholders meeting, 1950.
With editors, John McDonald and Catharine Stevens.
The author and a group of 1964 cars. Left to right: Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Oldsmobile.
Diesel electric locomotive, made by General Motors.
Olds, 1908.
Cadillac, 1908.
Buick, 1908.
First model of the Model T; appeared in 1908.
Chevrolet models ... 1912 through 1938.
Chevrolet models . . . 1939 through 1964.
One of the last Model T's, 1927.
Chevrolet, 1927.
Styling Staff building a wood base for a clay model of a new car.
Clay heated to 150 degrees and applied by Styling Staff to wood base to eliminate air bubbles.
Original "dream car" designed by Harley Earl and introduced by General Motors in 1938 to test consumer reaction to advanced ideas.
Fifth-wheel device for measuiring speed and distance with extreme accuracy at Proving Ground.
Cadillac on banked wall of speed loop.
Financial staff, May 1963
Research laboratories, July 1963
Engineering staff, June 1963
Manufacturing staff, May 1963
Styling staff, July 1963
Distribution staff, May 1963
Personnel staff, May 1963