1. How many brands of transportation products can you name that were built in Pontiac?

We now catalogue at least 44 companies, this includes wagons and carriages.   The early automotive products and trucks in Pontiac were pretty diverse.   By WWII many of these had been absorbed by one manufacturer: General Motors.

 

Some examples:

    • Standard Carriage
    • R V Taylor (carriages)
    • Cloonan Wagon
    • Union Buggy
    • Dunlap (carriages)
    • Pontiac Buggy
    • Pontiac Spring and Wagon
    • O J Beaudette
    • CarterCar
    • Olympian
    • Friend
    • Pontiac (orig high wheeler)
    • Pontiac Tractor
    • Flanders Motorcycle
    • Whizzer
    • Welch
    • Monroe
    • Columbia
    • Engler
    • Flanders Electric
    • Clarkspeed
    • Lincoln Truck
    • Rapid
    • GMC
    • Yellow Cab
    • Yellow Truck\
    • Yellow Knight
    • Oakland
    • Pontiac

And did you know that GM built examples of all of the following in Pontiac at various times?

    • Chevrolet
    • Oldsmobile
    • Buick
    • Cadillac
    • Opel
    • Vixen