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General Motors President Billy Durant personally bought the Guardian Frigerator Company of Detroit, Michigan in June 1918 with his own money. Guardian was a struggling company that had produced its first self-contained electric refrigerator in 1916 but had sold only 40 units in its first 2 years. In 1919, General Motors repaid Durant his investment of a little over $56,000.00 and renamed the company Frigidaire. GM employed new mass production and sales techniques of the auto industry to the company and by 1924 they were showing a profit. In 1926, the first all-steel refrigerator cabinet was introduced...
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I was there….
At my mom's house we still have the amazing, beautiful and iconic Frigidaire stove/oven with the "swing up" glass doors and "fold away" electric burners-and it is still being used for cooking. It can't be matched by anything on the market today. I almost feel it still represents the future the way it did in 1964. If you have the opportunity to watch any of the television series Bewitched, it is the stove seen in the frequent kitchen scenes from 1964-1971. Our stove is a beautiful light blue...and the Frigidaire stove used in the Bewitched series is a lovely pale yellow. A true work of art, function...
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2007 – July
The Camaro concept became a true movie star when AUTOBOT® Bumblebee became the star of the movie Transformers. Two identically prepared Camaro concepts (on GTO chassis) were built in record time for the movie. More >
1984 – July
GM do Brasil's Cruz Alta Proving Grounds (CAPG), in Indaiatuba, Brazil, was inaugurated 25 years ago. CAPG is the largest and most comprehensive proving ground in Latin America, and the second largest in the General Motors Corporation. It comprises the most advanced test tracks, which precisely replicate the most varied and demanding road conditions.
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