Walter
Marr
and
Thomas
Buick
Buick’s chief engineer, Walter L.
Man
(left), and
Thomas D. Buick, son
of
founder David Dunbar Buick,
drove the first Flint Buick in a successful Flint-Detroit
round trip in July 1904.
David Buick was building gasoline engines by 1899,
and
Marr,
his engineer, apparently built the first auto to
be called a Buick
in
1900. However, Buick traditionally
dates its beginnings to 1903. That was the year the
company was reorganized, refinanced and moved from
Detroit to Flint. Buick has always been a product
innovator. Buick engineers developed the
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