David Dunbar Buick

Interesting article on Buick and Durant and the genesis of General Motors


http://www.lvrj.com/drive/40836332.html

Recently up here in Flint we had a statue of David Buick unveiled along Saginaw St. http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=832064

Buick along with other well known Detroit residents are buried at Woodmere Cemetery.

http://woodmerecemeteryresearch.com/noteables.htm

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Originally Posted by gumby

Recently up here in Flint we had a statue of David Buick unveiled along Saginaw St. http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=832064

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Thanks, Gumby, for that alert!! I'll be sure to check out those statues the next I'm up in Flint.

Kathleen,

Be sure to spot the typos on the base of the Louis Chevrolet Statue. It was the first thing I noticed after the unveiling last year at Back to the Bricks. I am unsure if they fixed it or not.

Here is the link to the site that is getting these statues erected. It has some really good pictures of the Chevrolet and Buick statues and plans for future statues for Flint. I heard that there was talk of a copy of the Buick Statue being sent to be erected in his home town in Scotland. Not sure if that is happening or not.

http://www.backtothebricks.org/StatueProject.htm

Thanks for the additional info!! Will definitely take a roadtrip to Flint soon!!!

My great-grandfather worked for David Buick as a machinist and foreman at his Buick and Sherwood Plumbing Supplies factory, which was located at Lafayette [[then Champlain) and Meldrum. He and his family lived on Meldrum just behind the factory, which is where my grandmother was born.

Great-grandpa was a fellow Scotsman, and according to my grandma was always grateful to Buick for his start and thought warmly of him, despite Buick's rather stern reputation. "Firm, but always fair" is how my grandmother put it. He was also deeply impressed with Buick's design and technical skill, and deep knowledge of metal work.

Buick moved on from Buick and Sherwood to start his auto ventures, but my great-grandpa stayed on at the successor company, Sherwood Manufacturing, for several years, until his untimely death in 1912. The Sherwood company remained in the neighborhood into the '70s.

Despite the fact that much of her family worked for Hudson and Chrysler, grandma always favored Buicks and would own one when she could afford it.

Thanks, EastsideAl, for sharing that piece of family lore! What a great family story!!