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@RoyP I always loved the name of the guy who founded the Oldsmobile Automobile Company - Ransom E. Olds.

He also founded a truck division which made the REO line of larger trucks which was highly successful (I drove a Diamond REO tractor trailer when I was in college).  

He designed a fast-heating automobile steam generator that could go from a cold start to enough pressure to begin moving the car in less than 30 seconds, all before 1910.  

Oh, and he also created the moving, mass-production assembly line that Henry Ford copied and used (along with everyone else who survived the consolidation of the car industry back then).

Old Ransom was one smart cookie.  You can read about him here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_E._Olds

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