Ransom E. Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in 1897 in Lansing, Michigan, and after building four "horseless carriages," became the first company specifically formed to manufacture automobiles.

DALTON "This is not your father's Oldsmobile." "Dad, what's an Oldsmobile?" Ransom E. Olds is long gone, and more recently the car that he created. Need and greed constantly change the consumer ...

When Ransom E. Olds, this city's namesake, laid claim to 37,541 acres of land back in 1918, he envisioned a bustling city. But that vision never did take off. After five years and the loss of ...