14.Historical data from 100 Year Almanac(Detroit:Automotive News,1996),P.105,and the Antique Automobile Club of America Automotive chro-nology website(www.aaca.org),as well as various industrysources cited in Rob—ert Lacey,nThe Men and the Machine(Boston:Little Brown,1986),P.62;Pound,The Turning WeeZ,pp.86—90;May,A Most Unique Machine,P.279;and Weisberger,The Dream MaWr,PP.119—120.
[第7章]
1.Alfred P Sloan,Jr.,with Boyden Sparkes,Adventures of a Whire Collar Man(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1941),P.68.
2.Sloan,Adventures ofa Whhe Collar Man,P.68.
3.Ibid.PP.78—79.
4.Ibid,PP.79—80.
5.Ibid,PP.71—72.
6.George S.May,A Most Unique Machine(Grand Rapids,MI:W.E.Eerdmans,1975),P.272.
7.Douglas Brinkley,Whee/s for the World(New York:Viking Press,2003),P.54.
8.Sloan,Adventures ofa White Collar Man,PP.69—71.
9.WiHiam C.Durant,“The True Story of General Motors,”P.1,unfinished manuscript,Durant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
10.Ibid,P.2.
11.Bemard A.Weisberger,The Dream Maker(Boston:Litde,Brown,1979),P.128.
12.Durant,“True Story of General Motors,”P.2.
13.Ibid,P.2.
14.Ibid,P.3.
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid,P.4.
17.Ibid,P.5.
18.See Arthur Pound,The Turning Wheel(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1934),PP.111—118;May,A Most Unique Machine,PP.300—303;and Weisberger,The Dream Maker,PP.123—128.
19.Durant,“True Story of General Motors,”P.5.
20.Sidney Olson,Young Henry F0(Detroit:Wayne State University Press,1963),P.147.
21.May,A Most Unique Machine,pp.311—312,and Weisb·erger,The Dream Maker,pp.129—30.
22.Durant,“True Story of General Motors,”P.8.
23.Ibid,P.9.
24.Ibid.
25.Ibid.
26.Ibid,P.10.
27。Flint Journal,July 3,1908,as quoted in May,A Most Unique Ma—chine.PP.310—311.
28.The New York T/rues,July 31,1908;see also May,A Most Unique Ma—chine,P.314.
29.May,A Most Unique Machine,P.312.
30.关于通用汽车公司名字之起源的这一说法,在比利·杜兰特自己的手稿中得到了印证。城市流行着汽车业的许多传说,其中有一个讲的是杜兰特本人在与本杰明·布里斯科谈判的时候想到用这个名字的。
31.Pound,The Turning Wheel,P.118.
32.Durant,“True Story of General Motors,”P.16.
[第8章]
1.William C.Durant,“The Cadillac,”manuscript in Durant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
2.Arthur Pound,The Turning Wheel(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1934),P.121.
3.William C.Durant,“The True Story of General Motors,”pp.13一15,unfinished manuscript,Durant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering Uni—versity.
4.Alfred P.Sloan,Jr.,with Boyden Sparkes,Adventures of a White Collar Man(New York:Doubleday,DoranCompany,1941),pp.83—85.
5.Pound,The Turning Wheel,P.107.
6.Ed Cray,Chrome Colossus(New York:McGraw—Hill,1980),P.81.
7.Durant,“The Cadillac,”P.22.
8.William C.Durant,“The Ford Motor Company Incident。’’unpublished manuscript,Durant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
9.Ibid.
10.George S.May,A Most Unique Machine(Grand Rapids,MI:W.E.Eerdmans,1975),P.327.
1 1.Durant.“Ford Motor Company Incident.”
12.Ibid.
13.Ibid.
14.William C.Durant,”The A.C.Spark Plug,”Durant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid
17.Motor World as quoted in Bernard A.Weisberger.The Dream Maker(Boston:Little,Brown,1979),P.143.
18.Weisberger,The Dream Maker,PP.140—142.
19.Pound,The Turning Wheel,P.95.
[第9章]
1.Arthur Pound,The Turning Wheel(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Comp~my,1934),P.126.
2.Ibid,P.126.
3.William C.Durant,”The Chevrolet,”manuscript in the Durant Collec—tion,Seharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
4.Margery Durant,Father(New York:Knickerbocker Press,1929),PP.121—122.
5.Durant,My Father,PP.126—133.
6.Alfred P.Sloan Jr.,with Boyden Sparkes,Adventures of a White Collar Man(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1941),pp.83—85.
7.关于历年的销售数量,采自《阿尔曼纳克100年》(底特律:汽车新闻,1996年)第105~106页,尽管所有该时期的统计资料都:存在一些问题,但《汽车新闻》中的数字所显示的一般增长模式与所有其他公开出版的资料是一致的。
8.Ibid.
9.Sloan,Adventures ofa White Collar Man,P.85.
10.Ibid,P.87.
11.Ibid,PP.75—76.
12.Arthur Pound,The Turning Wheel(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1934),P.129.
13.Henry G.Pearson,Son of New England:James Jackson Storrow(Bos—ton:Little,Brown,1932),P.144.
14.Pound,The Turning Wheel,P,133.
15.Walter P.Chrysler,with Boyden Sparkes,Life ofan American Workman(New York:Curtis Publishing,1938),P.120.
16.Chrysler,Life ofanAmerican Workman,PP.123—124.
17.Ibid,P.126.
18.Ibid.
19.Ibid,P.127.
20.Ibid,PP.139—140.
21.庞德,《方向盘》,第139页。庞德没有注明其资料的出处,但用纯销售额除以公司年报所报告的员工人数,得出的生产效率数是一样的。
22.Durant,“The Chevrolet.”
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1.虽然威廉·杜兰特此时确切的财产数目不好确定,但他和他的女儿都说过,他还持有之前获得的通用汽车公司的所有股份,这些股份足有好几千股,1910年时的股价是每股100美元。他还拥有在杜兰特一多特公司中的股份,而且在随后的5年间仍不断地购进通用汽车公司的股份。在这个时期,通用汽车公司的普通股份价格暴涨,到1915年秋天达到每股558美元。
2.Arthur Pound,The Turning Wheel(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1934),P.154.
3.Flint Journal,July 11,1912,as quoted by Bernard A.Weisberger,The Dream Maker(Boston:Little,Brown,1979),PP.164—165.
4.Weisberger,The Dream MaWr,PP.146—147.
5.William C.Durant”The Chevrolet”PP.9—10.manuscript in the Du—rant Collection,Scharchburg Archives,Kettering University.
6.Durant,”The Chevrolet,”PP.11—12.
7.Margery Durant,My Father(New York:Knickerbocker Press,1929),P.152.
8.Henry Ford,with Samuel Crowther,My Life and Work(New York:Dou-bleday,Doran,1923),P.83.
9.Ibid.
10.Ibid.
11.Alfred P.Sloan,Jr.,with Boyden Sparkes,Adventures ofaCollar Man(New York:Doubleday,Doran&Company,1941),PP.77—78.
12.Alfred D.Chandler and Stephen Salsbury,Pierre S.du Pont and the Making ofthe Modem Corporation(New York:Harper&Row,1971),P.144.
[第11章]
1.Bernard A.Weisberger,The Dream Maker(Boston:Little,Brown,1979),P.188.