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Charles W. Nash
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Charles W. Nash, president of Buick, (1910-1912), head of General Motors (1912-1916) and founder of Nash Motors of Kenosha, Wisconsin, (1916-1936), a man sometimes referred to as the "great independent" of the automobile manufacturers.
1937
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Thomas B. Jeffery
1897
Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including this one which he built in Chicago in 1897. ...
Julius P. Heil
1925
Studio portrait of Julius Peter Heil, Wisconsin industrialist and Republican governor.
Stoughton Truck
1920
Closed truck manufactured by the Stoughton Wagon Company. This company's beginning as a manufacturer of wagons was a common origin for automobile manufacturers.
Nash Quad
1918
The standard U.S. Ordnance Department ammunition body manufactured by Nash Motors, the so-called "Nash Quad."
Buick Pulling a Grain Binder
1912
Men using a Buick automobile to pull a grain binder in a field, possibly to or from a photo shoot.
American Motors Assembly Line, 1965
1965
Assembly line of the American Motors Company, formerly Nash Motors, in Kenosha. The bodies, which in this image are close to being joined to the chassis, belong to 1966 model year AMC Ambassadors.
