Ed Cole

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward Nicholas Cole (Marne, Michigan, September 17, 1909 May 2, 1977 in Mendon, Michigan) was an automotive executive for General Motors. He is the father of David E. Cole, Center for Automotive Research, Chairman. Cole was the son of a dairy farmer. In his youth, he designed, built, and sold homemade radio sets, and as a teenager became a field representative for a tractor manufacturer. He wanted to be a lawyer, but landed a part-time job in an auto parts store while attending Grand Rapids Community College. He then enrolled in General Motors Institute, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Epsilon (now Pi Kappa Alpha) Fraternity. Cole was such a good student, that he was offered a job at GM before he graduated. Soon after Cole married his hometown sweetheart, Esther Engman. He worked in engineering, rising to co-head a team (with Harry Barr) that developed the 1949 Cadillac V8. He was briefly assigned to run a GM plant in Cleveland,Ohio, when Chevrolet general manager Tom Keating requested his assignment as chief engineer.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130849177
• ISBN-10: 6130849176
• Artikelnr.: 29750907