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GMC is a manufacturer of trucks, vans, military vehicles, and SUVs marketed in North America by General Motors Company. In January 2007, GMC was GM's second-largest-selling vehicle division after Chevrolet, ahead of Pontiac. GMC vehicles are also marketed in the Middle East.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Similarity to Chevrolet
* 3 GMC models
o 3.1 Light-dutyTrucks
o 3.2 Medium-duty Trucks
o 3.3 Heavy-duty Trucks
o 3.4 Buses
o 3.5 Vans
o 3.6 SUVs
o 3.7 Motorhomes
o 3.8 Military Vehicles
o 3.9 Gallery
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links
History
GMC Truck, from a 1919 advertisement
On December 22, 1901, Max Grabowsky established a company called the "Rapid Motor Vehicle Company", which developed some of the earliest commercial trucks ever designed. The trucks utilized one-cylinder engines. In 1909, the company was purchased by General Motors to form the basis for the General Motors Truck Company, from which GMC Truck was derived.
Another independent manufacturer purchased by GM that same year was Reliance Motor Car Company. Rapid and Reliance were merged in 1911, and in 1912 the marque "GMC Truck" was first shown at the New York International Auto Show. Some 22,000 trucks were produced that year, though GMC's contribution to that total was a mere 372 units.
In 1916, a GMC Truck crossed the country from Seattle to New York City in thirty days, and in 1926, a 2-ton GMC truck was driven from New York to San Francisco in five days and 30 minutes. During the Second World War, GMC Truck produced 600,000 trucks for use by the U.S. military.
In 1925, GM purchased a controlling interest in Yellow Coach, a bus manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois which was founded by John D. Hertz. After purchasing the remaining portion in 1943, GM renamed it GM Truck and Coach Division. The Division manufactured interurban coaches until 1980. Transit bus production ended in May 1987. The Canadian plant (in London, Ontario) produced buses from 1962 until July 1987. GM withdrew from the bus and coach market because of increased competition in the late 1970s and 1980s. Rights to the RTS model were sold to Transportation Manufacturing Corporation, while Motor Coach Industries of Canada purchased the Classic design.
In 2002, GMC released a book entitled, GMC: The First 100 Years, a complete history of the company.
GMC currently manufactures SUVs, pickup trucks, vans, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty trucks. In the past, GMC also produced fire trucks, ambulances, heavy-duty trucks, military vehicles, motorhomes, and transit buses.

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ford Ford Motor Company

Henry Ford July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947 was a prominent American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
He was known worldwide especially in the 1920s for a system of Fordism that seemed to promise modernity, high wages and cheap consumer goods, but his antisemitism in the 1920s has been a source of controversy.
Contents
* 1 Early years
* 2 Marriage and family
* 3 Career
* 4 Ford Motor Company
o 4.1 Model T
o 4.2 Model A and Ford's later career
o 4.3 Labor philosophy
+ 4.3.1 The five-dollar workday
+ 4.3.2 Labor unions
* 5 Ford Airplane Company
o 5.1 Willow Run
* 6 Peace and war
o 6.1 World War I era
o 6.2 Mental collapse and World War II
* 7 The Dearborn Independent
* 8 International business
* 9 Racing
* 10 Later career
* 11 Death
* 12 Sidelights
o 12.1 Interest in materials science and engineering
o 12.2 Georgia residence and community
o 12.3 Preserving Americana
o 12.4 On the idea that he invented the automobile
o 12.5 On the idea that he invented the assembly line
o 12.6 Miscellaneous
* 13 Popular culture
* 14 Honors
* 15 See also
* 16 Notes
* 17 References
o 17.1 Memoirs by Ford Motor Company principals
o 17.2 Biographies
o 17.3 Specialized studies
o 17.4 Further reading
* 18 External links
* 19 References