Article: Billy Durant: From critic to car czar; They spewed fumes and spooked the horses - but he knew a sure thing when he saw one.(SUPP)

Article: Billy Durant took GM on a wild ride to the top; ...
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  April 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... It was all because of the work of Billy Durant, a visionary, flamboyant, risk ... lined up orders for 600. In the book Billy Durant Creator of General Motors, biographer ... including AC Spark Plugs, the Oakland Motor Car Company (later known as Pontiac) and ...

Article: Dreamer, schemer couldn't agree.(Ford 100)(Henry Ford, ...
Automotive News;  June 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Lindsay Chappell They call Henry Ford a wheeler-dealer. But Billy Durant took the cake on wheeling and dealing. Ford began making ... every tenth of a point of market share. CAPTION(S): Billy Durant was after critical mass.

Article: Billy Durant in Jackson.(Letter to the editor)
Michigan History Magazine;  November 1, 2008 ;     666 words ...When I was doing research for my geography dissertation in 1969 at Jackson, Michigan, I came upon several of Billy Durant's activities. They provide a bit more diversity to Lawrence Gustin's fine centennial account of in the September/October ...

Article: Durant almost landed Ford, but couldn't come up with $2 million; ...
Automotive News;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... headache for the next 100 years. That is what must have vexed Billy Durant until the day he died. For lack of a relatively small sum ... General Motors, was $8 million. But not $8 million as Billy Durant thought of $8 million. It would be $8 million as Henry ...

Article: OLD VOICE RECORDING LETS AUTO PIONEER BILLY DURANT ...
PR Newswire;  April 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ...SAN ANTONIO, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The late William C. "Billy" Durant, a flamboyant industrialist who created General Motors and lost control of it twice, "talked" in public tonight (Thursday ...

Article: DRIVER'S SEAT: BILLY DURANT STEERS GM TOWARD THE ...
Automotive News;  September 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Editor's note: From The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Copyright 1999 by Axel Madsen. Printed by permission. This chapter, ``Into the Roaring Twenties examines some of the turmoil that led up to William Durant being deposed as GM president in

Article: UKRAINE-MOTOR-CAR-BUILDING-EC-OPINION.
Ukraine News;  December 11, 2003 ;     610 words ...UKRAINE-MOTOR-CAR-BUILDING-EC-OPINION EC points out discrimination elements in draft on motor-car building in Ukraine Kyiv, December 11 ... first reading on the development of the motor-car industry in Ukraine is of a discrimination ...