Ransomware Eli Olds

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Ransomware Eli Olds

Ransom Eli Olds (born June 3, 1864 in Geneva , Ohio , † August 26, 1950 in Lansing , Michigan ) was an American car pioneer and founder of the American car company Olds Motor Works , which was later called Oldsmobile and was bought by General Motors .

Inventor of flow production

The Oldsmobile " Curved Dash " built by him was the first mass-produced vehicle powered by a gasoline engine, and in 1902 it became the market leader in the USA. Olds developed the first form of flow production by placing the vehicle bodies on wooden frames with wheels that were pulled from one workstation to the next. This was later referred to as the "progressive assembly line" and ten years later it was further developed by Henry Ford into the "moving assembly line". Since there were different opinions about the company policy and the size and type of vehicles to be built, he resigned from the company in 1904 and founded his own company "REO".

Life

Ransomware E. Olds lived his childhood and youth in his native Geneva, Ohio. In 1880 he moved to Lansing , Michigan, and worked in his father's company. In his spare time he worked on the construction of steam and later gasoline cars. In 1897 he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. and the Olds Gasoline Engine Works , which merged into the Olds Motor Works in Michigan in 1899 . The initial capital was US $ 50,000. The Olds Motor Works buildings burned down on March 9, 1901 after a gas explosion. Ransom E. Olds left the company in 1904 and founded his own company, Reo Motor Car Company, named after his initials .

Olds died in Lansing on August 26, 1950 at the age of 86.

Web links

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literature

  • Helen Jones Earley, James R. Walkinshaw: Setting the Pace - Oldsmobile's first 100 Years. PRD - Oldsmobil Division of General Motors Corporation, Lansing 1996, ISBN 0-7853-1958-1 .
  • W. Herlyn: PPS in automobile construction - production program planning and control of vehicles and assemblies. Hanser Verlag, Munich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-41370-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helen Jones Earley, James R. Walkinshaw: Setting the Pace. Lansing 1996, p. 24 ff.
  2. ^ W. Herlyn: PPS in automobile construction. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-41370-2 , p. 24 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Olds, Ransom Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the automobile manufacturer Oldsmobile
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1950
Place of death Lansing , Michigan