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1936: GM, Firestone, Standard Oil. "Perhaps you can guess where this is going."
- jdnier 13y ago"Starting in the 1920s, a company called National City Lines started buying up street car lines, then mostly privately owned. In 1936, the company became a holding company owned equally by General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, and Phillips Petroleum. Perhaps you can guess where this is going."
- jdnier 13y agoThis was a conspiracy theory I always heard growing up in Michigan -- that the auto companies had bought up the trolleys in Detroit so people would have to buy cars. It's good to finally see the historical basis.
- acqq 13y agoIn the article is also the link to: http://www.intransitionmag.org/archive_stories/streetcar_scandal.aspx http://www.intransitionmag.org/archive_stories/streetcar_sca... And Wikipedia has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
- jdnier 13y agoBoth are really good articles. Thanks.