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Photos from 1942 show Lansing's Oldsmobile factory making ammunition and other parts to aid the country in its efforts in WWII.
Lansing had been synonymous with Oldsmobile since 1897, when Ransom Eli Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. after experimenting with horseless carriages in his father's River Street shop.
The classic Cutlass Supreme convertible oozes 1990s design and is being raffled off to benefit the RE Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing.
It's been 10 years since the Oldsmobile factory in Lansing, Mich., shut its doors. The last Oldsmobile to roll off the line on April 29, 2014 was a Dark Cherry Alero sedan, and it was a sad ...
The factory later combined with the 1901 Oldsmobile plant to become Lansing Car Assembly, which closed in 2005. At that point, it was the longest-operating automobile factory in the United States.
General Motors produced Oldsmobile cars for the majority of its existence. The company, established in 1897 by Ransom E. Olds, is still based in the US. In its 107-year existence, it manufactured 35.2 ...
For most of the 20th Century, Lansing was Oldsmobile’s hometown. But with GM having announced the phase-out of the Oldsmobile nameplate, this city’s future lies with Cadillac, whose $559 ...
Lansing is synonymous with Oldsmobile. But it's not common knowledge that the first plastic pocket protectors and gas lawn mowers were invented here.
A fire destroyed the Oldsmobile factory in 1900, just after it had moved from Lansing to Detroit. The only car that survived the fire was a small, one-cylinder, curved-dash model that ...
When Ransom Olds moved his automobile business out of Detroit in 1902, he settled on the banks of the Grand River in Lansing. What started as a simple factory grew exponentially over several ...
James Kryta's 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass W-30 4-4-2 was a labor of love as he worked to restore it, intending to throw it into the spotlight at car shows.
Corporate restriction eventually choked out Olds' ability to actually operate under those virtues, but the golden era of Oldsmobile lives on in the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing.