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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born on December 25, 1878, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center of watchmaking in northwestern Switzerland. [1] He was the second child of Joseph-Félicien Chevrolet, a watchmaker, and Marie-Anne Angéline Mahon. [2]
In Canada, on 30 September 1910, after obtaining a loan of $52,935.25 ($1,730,983 in 2023 dollars [7]) (cosigned by R S McLaughlin), went into partnership with Louis Chevrolet in 1911, starting the Chevrolet company. In 1914, a disagreement with Louis Chevrolet resulted in Durant buying out his partner. [9]
Chevrolet (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ v r ə ˈ l eɪ / SHEV-rə-LAY), colloquially referred to as Chevy, is an American automobile division of the manufacturer General Motors (GM).. Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 [2] as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
Chevrolet was born near Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or region of France where his Swiss family had emigrated to a few years earlier. His father was a watch-maker, and he was the younger brother of Louis (1878–1941, founder of the Chevrolet car company) and Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946).
The man behind Chevrolet's iconic machine, the Corvette, is retiring. General Motors said Wednesday that Tadge Juechter, the Corvette executive chief engineer, will retire later this summer after ...
The 1912–14 Chevrolet Type C, also called the Chevrolet Classic Six (Series C), Chevrolet Model C, Classic Six, or, at the time it was new, simply "the Chevrolet" (since there were no other models to confuse it with until 1914 when the models H and L were released), was the first Chevrolet, and was also sold by other makes. It was a well ...
General Motors' (GM) Chevrolet Volt, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle set to debut in the U.S. next month, has won Green Car Journal's 2011 Green Car of the Year award. The Volt beat out the ...
Albert Axelrod, Jewish American bronze medalist in the 1960 Summer Olympics in foil; Abraham Balk, only man to win both foil and epeé NCAA championships (1947) Cliff Bayer, 4x U.S. foil champion; Caitlin Bilodeaux, 4x USFA Women's Foil Champ; tied for third on the women's championship list. Pan American Individual and Team champion, 1987, 2x ...