biography
| name: |
Buick, David Dunbar
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pronunciation:
[byooik]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1929)
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| biography:
| Inventor and manufacturer, born in Arbroath, Angus, E Scotland, UK. His family came to Detroit, USA (1856), and he went on to form Buick and Sherwood (1884), manufacturers of plumbing equipment. He began making gasoline engines and formed the Buick Manufacturing Co (1902); its automobiles were the first to have windshields and a valve-in-head engine. The company failed and merged with another to form the Buick Motor Car Co (1903), which built only 53 cars in two years at no profit. Buick left in 1906, pursued oil and gold mining interests, and died an impoverished clerk at a Detroit trade school. The Buick Motor Car Co became part of the General Motors Co that William Durant organized in 1908. |
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