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When I started my career with GM, I was assigned to the Transportation Systems Division. It was very unique. It was partially at the GM Tech Center and off-site in Warren, Michigan. We worked on traffic signage, Metro Bus routes in Denver and other places, and did Intermodal freight studies for truck / rail transports. We also designed, developed and built a dual mode bus. This bus had both a gasoline engine and an electric motor drive. It was far ahead of its time, when you think of it now. We worked with wire guidance vehicles, where the wire was imbedded in the roadway. We did all sorts of traffic studies for many municipalities. It was very interesting stuff.

I was a designer at the time and just started, so I was not involved in all the big discussions, but enjoyed the variety of work that I had. We designed and built prototypes, and had tests at the GM Milford Proving Grounds.

GM certainly was a leader in transportation. I am positive many of those studies and ideas became real and were implemented later on. Those concepts are still being applied today. The GM Electromotive, Defense and Transportation Divisions may be gone, but the ground work, ideas and innovations that GM had, carries on.

It was a great time to be with GM and I am glad I was there from 1976 to 2003.

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