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☞Oldsmobile!
☞Today in History -- On today’s date 159 years ago, Friday, June 3, 1864, famous American automotive-industry pioneer Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950), namesake of the Oldsmobile & REO makes of motor cars, was born at the village of Madison in Lake County, Ohio.
☞Olds claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894 & his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The modern assembly line & its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile Curved-Dash, beginning in 1901.
☞The 1920 left-hand photograph depicts the moustachioed & bespectacled visage of Ransom Eli Olds at around the age of 56. The right-hand 1903 photograph depicts Ransom Olds’s “Pirate,” racing car at Ormond Beach, Florida, “The Birthplace of Speed.”

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