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Louis Chevrolet
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-born American racing driver, mechanic, and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911.
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business · American racing driver (1878–1941) · entrepreneur · racing automobile driver · engineer · auto mechanic · also Louis Chevrolet, Louis-Joseph Chevrolet, Chevrolet
Born 25 December 1878 · Died 6 June 1941 · Q351372
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1949· 1 entry
1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-06-06.
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1927· 1 entry
Chevrolet launched the aircraft engine construction company Chevrolair, which failed three years later as a result of the Great Depression
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1923· 1 entry
It merged with the Bessemer Motor Truck Company of Pennsylvania into Bessemer-American Motors Corporation, which lasted less than a year before merging with the Winther and Northway companies into Amalgamated Motors
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1920· 1 entry
In one of their Frontenacs, going on to win the 1920 AAA National Championship
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1918· 1 entry
Prior to the incorporation of the General Motors Corporation in the United States when General Motors Company of New Jersey dissolved
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1916· 3 entries
Chevrolet and his brothers founded the Frontenac Motor Corporation to make racing parts for the Ford Model T
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American Motors Corporation (unrelated to the later American Motors created by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company) was formed in Newark, New Jersey, with Louis Chevrolet as vice p
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And his younger brothers Gaston and Arthur Chevrolet started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing and producing a line of racing cars
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1915· 2 entries
Chevrolet became a naturalized American citizen in 1915.
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Sold Durant his share in the company and started McLaughlin's Company in Canada building Chevrolets
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1911· 1 entry
Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with his brother Arthur Chevrolet, William C
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1907· 1 entry
Was hired by the Autocar Company in Philadelphia, probably for a secret project to develop a revolutionary front-wheel-drive racing car
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1906· 1 entry
Charles Louis Chevrolet (1906–1934), industrial draftsman, married Anne Blessing (born 1906), they had one daughter Renee Chevrolet Goeke (1929–2018), who was the only granddaughter of Louis Chevrolet.
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1905· 2 entries
Chevrolet married French-born Suzanne Estelle Treyvoux (1888–1966), a daughter of Louis Antoine Treyvoux, a furrier originally from Paris, and Marie Treyvoux (née Burlat)
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Chevrolet won his first race, racing a Fiat at Morris Park, the first-ever national championship race sanctioned by the American Automobile Association (AAA) Contest Board, then known as the Racing Board
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1887· 1 entry
Chevrolet left Switzerland along with his father to settle in Beaune, France
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1878· 2 entries
In La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center of watchmaking in the French speaking northwestern Switzerland
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Born 1878-12-25.
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