Part one of term paper
One September evening in 1886, a young businessman in an old lumber town in Michigan hitched a ride in a friend's horse-drawn cart. The cart's spring suspension made it a more comfortable ride than usual--so comfortable, in fact, that the young businessman bought the rights to manufacture the cart, contracted with a carriage maker for product ...

Part two of term paper
... manufacturer. By 1903, though, his Buick Motor Company was in financial trouble. In an effort to locate new investors, he dispatched Buick engineer Walter Marr to the little town of Flint, Michigan, to see if he could persuade the partners of a prosperous carriage and wagon maker there to take a stake in the company. While one of the carriage-makers went for a ride with Marr in his car and immediately learned to drive it himself, the other partner, Billy Durant, wouldn't so much as look at it ...