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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