Nice Video of Mr Olds and how he changed Lansing

[Mark Gregory]

If you have 12 minutes watch this video of R.E. Olds and how he changed Lansing.

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?464139-1/re-olds-lansings-automobile-industry

Edited September 25, 2019 by Mark Gregory (see edit history)

[Guest]

Great vid! 

[just me]

Thanks for sharing.

Charley

[cahartley]

Love how they give Henry a couple shots........ 😛 

[J.H.Boland]

Interesting history.I'm working on a pair of curved dash Olds engines,a 1901 and 1903,that I found in an old granary a few years ago.The '03 was converted to a vertical stationary power plant .

[Steve Moskowitz]

Well I enjoyed it and as a life long Olds buff, owner of several CDO's and other early Oldsmobiles, Olds employee and Olds dealer I wish great video's like this were 100% accurate.  I hate being picky but the 1897 Olds that is on loan from the Smithsonian is one of 4 not 3!  Ransom Olds has neveer been given his just due by the automotive press.  He had a ton of first in the industry.  

[Mark Gregory]

I heard at a Reo Meet that Reo designed a Military truck for WW2 and everyone copied it it was so good.

 

 

After World War II, the M35 series truck, originally developed by REO, became the standard 2 ¹⁄₂-ton truck. First fielded in the 1950s, the M35 family became one of the most successful and long-lived series of trucks ever deployed by the U.S. military. They served in Vietnam and continued to serve with various modifications into the late 1990s.^[