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Photo and information from the Charles Stewart Mott publication, published by the Ruth Mott Foundation.

Charles Stewart Mott
In this photo is one of the original 1936 Silver-Topped Streamliners. Riding as a passenger in a 1904 Buick is Charles Mott, Vice President of General Motors from 1916 through 1937 and board director until 1973. He also served as Flint's Mayor for a couple of terms in the early 1900s. 


The caption printed on the photo reads, "C.S. Mott during the 1939 GM "Parade of Progress" in Flint. This was one of several major national traveling parades showing technological progress."

CHARLES STEWART MOTT -- After serving a term with Navy in the late 1800s, Mott worked as an engineer and turned his bicycle wheel-making company into a manufacturer of automobile wheel and axle assemblies. In 1906, Billy Durant persuaded Mott to move his operation to Michigan. A few years after the formation of General Motors in 1908, the Weston-Mott Company was absorbed and Mott began a 60-year term, from 1913 to 1973, as a member of GM's Board of Directors.

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