Buick was best known for plumbing inventions before it became a trademark of automobile luxury and innovative designs. The company was started by David Dunbar Buick when he became exceedingly interested in gasoline engines during his mid thirties. He then decided to discard his plumbing activities and by the 1900s, he had built a number of engines for boating and farming purposes. His passion for motors, however, led him to start his own motor company which he called Auto Vim and Power Company.

However, the name of the company didn’t have any resonance with the name of the founder, and as a result, it was replaced in 1903 with the name – Buick Manufacturing Co. In the same year, the company heads decided to further simplify the name by dropping the term “manufacturing” so that it remained just as Buick.

Following the successful solving of the corporate and identity issues, the company embarked on focusing in the manufacture of car engines. Buick’s effort in his work would soon pay generously and for a long time with the genesis of the overhead valve engine that brought so much recognition to the company.

The success of the engine was attributed to the position of the valve, which enabled the engines to be fitted in places with tight spaces while at the same time allowing easy access to the driver for proper maintenance. This was unlike most of the car engines at that time which had the valves mounted at an angle. Buick and his engineering team were not faced with difficult challenges usually associated with building an engine, but they had to deal with a stage of slow financial growth.

The company continued to face financial difficulties such that by September 1903, David Buick and Benjamin Briscoe Jr. who was his financial advisor made the decision to sell the firm to weapon manufacturing company in Flint, Michigan, a company that was located just about 60 miles from Detroit, the former headquarters of Buick. The entire plant was then moved to Flint and this enabled David Buick to continue focusing on his work, the new owners had kept him as a manager.

Despite the new company constructing the first Flint Buick model, financial difficulties came calling again, and this time round, the impact was so great that the company had no option but to seek for external help.

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