Louis chevrolet biography summary organizer
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The Up-And-Down Life Of Louis Chevrolet
Most recognize Chevrolet as one of the world’s best-selling automobile lines. Few, however, realize how tightly intertwined the beginnings of that iconic company were with racing.
Louis Joseph Chevrolet, born in a rustic Swiss village on Christmas 1878, was a teenager when the bicycle craze erupted. He was immediately captivated and his first taste of competition came on those then cutting-edge machines.
A self-taught engineer, Chevrolet displayed an aptitude for design and an entrepreneurial bent, building and selling his own bicycles at age 16. He named his creations Frontenac, after the 17th-century governor of France’s North American colonies. Later, he branded his successful line of race cars with the same name.
With the appearance of the first automobiles, Chevrolet’s interests turned automotive. His family migrated to France and he was first employed as an automotive mechanic in Paris. While in Paris, William K. Vanderbilt’s three-wheel car broke down and Chevrolet won Vanderbilt’s admiration when he repaired it after others failed.
Vanderbilt encouraged him to migrate to the U.S., asserting, “We need you there.”
Chevrolet did just that.
After being courted by several New York car companies, he accepted an offer
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03 Jul Stories From the Stacks: Chevvie Bowtie
Posted at 14:32h in Museum, Newsletter by fmmadmin
A regular series about the museum’s motoring memorabilia and behind-the-scenes activities, compiled and written by FMM’s Assistant Curator Sian Theron. This month, Sian goes back in time and dresses up with a bowtie…
A snippet of motoring history reaches a significant milestone this year as the Chevrolet ‘bowtie’ logo celebrates making its debut 110 years ago. There are a few possible theories behind the roots of the design, all of which make for pretty good ‘origins stories…’
Probably the most well-known of the origin stories comes from The Chevrolet Story which purports that William C Durant, one of the co-founders of Chevrolet, was on a trip in France and encountered a design on the wallpaper in his hotel room in Paris that caught his eye. As the story goes, he was so taken with the design that he ripped a small piece of the wallpaper off the wall and took it back to the States with him, where it was used to help inspire the design Chevy logo.
The other stories come from reminiscences of the Durant family. William’s daughter mentions that she remembers her father doodling at the meal table at home, sketching designs, until one day he cre
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