re lois chevrolet the chevrolet brothers were respected racers test drivers for the buick co when durant was there when the directors kicked durant out of gm in he took chevrolet and others with him as mentioned before they founded the successful chevrolet company a little known fact is that the chevrolet co actually took over gm that was how durant got back in charge of gm legally his new company chevrolet co did the buying and gm was a division of chevrolet after and into the sloan era gm shuffled things so that the gm board was superior but there was always a degree of autonomy given the chevy division presumably because of the initial structure if you look at the organization chart for gm in sloan s book chevy division reports directly to th floor not through the passenger car division which covers buick olds cadillac and oakland pontiac jeff hagen minor deity of worthless auto trivia hagenjd ac wfu edu
